Florida Senate - 2012                                    SB 1666
       
       
       
       By Senator Dean
       
       
       
       
       3-01019-12                                            20121666__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to psychologists; amending s. 490.006,
    3         F.S.; revising the licensure requirements for a
    4         psychologist or school psychologist who possesses a
    5         doctoral degree and holds a license from another
    6         jurisdiction; requiring 15 years rather than 20 years
    7         of licensed experience in another jurisdiction within
    8         25 years preceding the date of application; providing
    9         an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 490.006, Florida
   14  Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         490.006 Licensure by endorsement.—
   16         (1) The department shall license a person as a psychologist
   17  or school psychologist who, upon applying to the department and
   18  remitting the appropriate fee, demonstrates to the department
   19  or, in the case of psychologists, to the board that the
   20  applicant:
   21         (a) Holds a valid license or certificate in another state
   22  to practice psychology or school psychology, as applicable,
   23  provided that, when the applicant secured such license or
   24  certificate, the requirements were substantially equivalent to
   25  or more stringent than those set forth in this chapter at that
   26  time; and, if no Florida law existed at that time, then the
   27  requirements in the other state must have been substantially
   28  equivalent to or more stringent than those set forth in this
   29  chapter at the present time;
   30         (b) Is a diplomate in good standing with the American Board
   31  of Professional Psychology, Inc.; or
   32         (c) Possesses a doctoral degree in psychology as described
   33  in s. 490.003 and has at least 15 20 years of experience as a
   34  licensed psychologist in any jurisdiction or territory of the
   35  United States within 25 years preceding the date of application.
   36         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.