By Kubiak H.B. No. 2991
74R6086 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the practice of psychology.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2(c), Psychologists' Certification and
1-5 Licensing Act (Article 4512c, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) The term "psychological services," means acts or
1-8 behaviors coming within the purview of the practice of psychology.
1-9 The practice of psychology is an offering to the public or
1-10 rendering to individuals or groups any service, including
1-11 computerized procedures, that involves but is not restricted to the
1-12 application of established principles, methods, and procedures of
1-13 describing, explaining, and ameliorating behavior. The practice of
1-14 psychology addresses normal behavior and the evaluation,
1-15 prevention, and remediation of psychological, emotional, mental,
1-16 interpersonal, learning, and behavioral disorders of individuals
1-17 and groups, as well as the psychological concomitants of medical
1-18 problems, organizational structures, stress, and health. The
1-19 practice of psychology includes the use of projective techniques,
1-20 neuropsychological testing, counseling, and career counseling<,
1-21 psychotherapy, hypnosis for health care purposes, hypnotherapy, and
1-22 biofeedback> and the evaluation and treatment by psychological
1-23 techniques and procedures of mental or emotional disorders and
1-24 disabilities. The practice of psychology is based on a systematic
2-1 body of knowledge and principles acquired in an organized program
2-2 of graduate study and on the standards of ethics established by the
2-3 profession.
2-4 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-5 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-6 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-7 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-8 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-9 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-10 passage, and it is so enacted.