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INTRODUCED
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HOUSE COMMITTEE
SUBSTITUTE
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SECTION 1. Subchapter A,
Chapter 502, Occupations Code, is amended by adding Section 502.0021 to
read as follows:
Sec. 502.0021. PRACTICE
OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY. (a) In this section, "marriage and
family therapy" means the provision of professional therapy services
to individuals, families, or couples, alone or in groups, that involve
applying family systems theories and techniques, including the evaluation
and remediation of cognitive, affective, behavioral, or relational
dysfunction in the context of marriage or family systems.
(b) The practice of
marriage and family therapy may include the use of the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the International Classification of
Diseases, and other diagnostic
classification systems and the use of billing codes in connection with
those systems for assessment, evaluation, classification, treatment, and
other activities by a person licensed under this chapter, in connection
with a claim for payment or reimbursement from a health insurance policy
issuer or other payor.
(c) The practice of
marriage and family therapy does not include prescribing medication,
treating a physical disease, or providing any service outside the scope of
practice of a licensed marriage and family therapist or licensed marriage
and family therapist associate.
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SECTION 1. Section
502.002(6), Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:
(6) "Marriage and
family therapy" means providing professional therapy services to
individuals, families, or married
couples, alone or in groups, that involve applying family systems theories
and techniques. The term includes the evaluation, diagnostic assessment, and
remediation of mental,
cognitive, affective, behavioral, or relational dysfunction, disease, or disorder in the context
of marriage or family systems and may include the use of the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the International
Classification of Diseases.
The practice of marriage
and family therapy does not constitute
the practice of medicine and does not include prescribing
medication, treating a physical disease, or providing any service outside
the scope of practice of a licensed marriage and family therapist or a
licensed marriage and family therapist associate.
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SECTION 2. Section 503.003, Occupations
Code, is amended by adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
(d) The practice of
professional counseling may include the use of the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the International Classification of
Diseases, and other diagnostic classification systems and the use of
billing codes in connection with those systems for assessment, evaluation,
classification, treatment, and other activities by a person licensed under
this chapter, in connection with a claim for payment or reimbursement from
a health insurance policy issuer or other payor.
(e) The practice of
professional counseling does not include prescribing medication, treating a
physical disease, or providing any service outside the scope of practice of
a licensed professional counselor.
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No
equivalent provision.
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SECTION 3. Subchapter A,
Chapter 504, Occupations Code, is amended by adding Section 504.0011 to
read as follows:
Sec. 504.0011. PRACTICE
OF CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY COUNSELING. (a) The practice of chemical
dependency counseling may include the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders, the International Classification of Diseases,
and other diagnostic classification systems and the use of billing codes in
connection with those systems for assessment, evaluation, classification,
treatment, and other activities by a person licensed under this chapter, in
connection with a claim for payment or reimbursement from a health
insurance policy issuer or other payor.
(b) The practice of chemical
dependency counseling does not include prescribing medication, treating a
physical disease, or providing any service outside the scope of practice of
a chemical dependency counselor.
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No
equivalent provision.
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SECTION 4. Section
21.003(b), Education Code, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Except as otherwise
provided by this subsection, a person may not be employed by a school
district as an audiologist, occupational therapist, physical therapist,
physician, nurse, school psychologist, associate school psychologist,
licensed professional counselor, marriage and family therapist, social
worker, or speech language pathologist unless the person is licensed by the
state agency that licenses that profession and may perform specific
services within those professions for a school district only if the person
holds the appropriate credential from the appropriate state agency. As
long as a person employed by a district before September 1, 2011, to
perform marriage and family therapy under Chapter 502 [, as defined
by Section 502.002], Occupations Code, is employed by the same
district, the person is not required to hold a license as a marriage and
family therapist to perform marriage and family therapy with that district.
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No
equivalent provision.
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SECTION 5. Section
502.002(6), Occupations Code, is repealed.
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No
equivalent provision.
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SECTION 6. This Act takes
effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members
elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.
If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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SECTION 2. Same as introduced
version.
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