Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 2383 amends the Occupations Code to authorize the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse to obtain a criminal history record for an applicant to be a licensed chemical dependency counselor and for a counselor intern, prohibits the issuance of a license to an applicant with convictions for certain misdemeanors, and provides for the removal of a license, as well as requiring the suspension of a counselor's license if the license holder has been charged, indicted, placed on deferred adjudication, community supervision, or probation, or convicted of certain offenses. The bill establishes a process for the appeal of certain license denials, renewal refusals, and suspensions.