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| Lookup & Contact your Federal Legislators | https://www.govtrack.us/ | |||
| Counseling Compact | Currently several national organizations including AMHCA and ACA have contracted with a Licensing Compact Company to achieve this goal. Illinois and ICA and IMHCA and CICO supports these efforts. We support all efforts to achieve licensure portability for professional counselors. | Link Link to information on the Compact | ||
| Medicare | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services under part B of the Medicare program, and for other purposes. Passed as part of the Federal Omnibus Spending Legislation | HR432 | 01/21/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means IL Co-sponsor Rep. Schakowsky, Janice | |
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Passed as part of the Federal Omnibus Spending Legislation | S 828 | ||
| Mental Health | To authorize funding to increase access to mental health care treatment to reduce gun violence. | HR 137 - | 01/04/2021 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary | |
| IOWA Licensure proposed changes | The Iowa Board of Behavioral Health is considering changes to its Educational Qualifications for Mental Health Counselors. In the Professional Orientation curriculum, the Board proposes to replace the American Counseling Association with the American Mental Health Counselors Association as the primary one to be studied, despite ACA’s much longer history and larger membership. More significantly, under the Ethical Standards curriculum, the Board proposes to replace ACA with AMHCA as the source of counselor ethics to be studied. ACA’s Code of Ethics is the standard across the nation. Moreover, it is the code of ethics adopted and used by the Iowa Board of Behavioral Health. There is no logical reason to adopt the code of ethics of one association for all counselors to work under and then require students to learn about the ethical standards of a different association. | |||
| Legislation from 116th Congress | ||||
| School Mental Health Services | Mental Health Services for Students Act | Proposed Legislation | HR1109 | Latest Action: Passed House failed Senate116th Congress over |
| Loan repayment | Mental Health Professionals Workforce Shortage Loan Repayment Act of 2019 | Proposed Legislation | HR2431 | Introduced 5/8/19 |
| Compact Legislation for Interstate Counselor Licensure | ||||
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| Georgia | Professional Counselors Licensure Compact Act | Signed into law | Fingerprint, criminal background check, 60 credit hour degree in counseling or meet list of classes | |
| Maryland | SB 0571 Professional Counselors Licensure | Signed into law May 18, 2021 | ||
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| North Carolina | Drafting | |||
| Deleware | Drafting | |||
| Other possibles: AL, LA, TX, NH, ID, CO, MO, WA, AZ, OH, OK |
