Public Act 104-0301
 
HB3373 EnrolledLRB104 09616 AAS 19681 b

    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act is 
amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
 
    (225 ILCS 15/10)  (from Ch. 111, par. 5360)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
    Sec. 10. Qualifications of applicants; examination. The 
Department, except as provided in Section 11 of this Act, 
shall issue a license as a clinical psychologist to any person 
who pays an application fee and who:
        (1) is at least 21 years of age;
        (2) (blank);
        (3) is a graduate of a doctoral program from a 
    college, university or school accredited by the regional 
    accrediting body which is recognized by the Council on 
    Postsecondary Accreditation and is in the jurisdiction in 
    which it is located for purposes of granting the doctoral 
    degree and either:
            (a) is a graduate of a doctoral program in 
        clinical, school or counseling psychology either 
        accredited by the American Psychological Association 
        or the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation 
        System or approved by the Council for the National 
        Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology or 
        other national board recognized by the Board, and has 
        completed 2 years of satisfactory supervised 
        experience in clinical, school or counseling 
        psychology at least one of which is an internship and 
        one of which is postdoctoral; or
            (b) holds a doctoral degree from a recognized 
        college, university or school which the Department, 
        through its rules, establishes as being equivalent to 
        a clinical, school or counseling psychology program 
        and has completed at least one course in each of the 
        following 7 content areas, in actual attendance at a 
        recognized university, college or school whose 
        graduates would be eligible for licensure under this 
        Act: scientific and professional ethics, biological 
        basis of behavior, cognitive-affective basis of 
        behavior, social basis of behavior, individual 
        differences, assessment, and treatment modalities; and 
        has completed 2 years of satisfactory supervised 
        experience in clinical, school or counseling 
        psychology, at least one of which is an internship and 
        one of which is postdoctoral; or
            (c) holds a doctorate in psychology or in a 
        program whose content is psychological in nature from 
        an accredited college, university or school not 
        meeting the standards of paragraph (a) or (b) of this 
        subsection (3) and provides evidence of the completion 
        of at least one course in each of the 7 content areas 
        specified in paragraph (b) in actual attendance at a 
        recognized university, school or college whose 
        graduate would be eligible for licensure under this 
        Act; and has completed an appropriate practicum, an 
        internship or equivalent supervised clinical 
        experience in an organized mental health care setting 
        and 2 years of satisfactory supervised experience in 
        clinical or counseling psychology, at least one of 
        which is postdoctoral; and
        (4) has passed an examination authorized by the 
    Department to determine his or her fitness to receive a 
    license.
Applicants for licensure under subsection (3)(a) and (3)(b) of 
this Section shall complete 2 years of satisfactory supervised 
experience, at least one of which shall be an internship and 
one of which shall be postdoctoral. A year of supervised 
experience is defined as not less than 1,750 hours obtained in 
not less than 50 weeks based on 35 hours per week for full-time 
work experience. Full-time supervised experience will be 
counted only if it is obtained in a single setting for a 
minimum of 6 months. Part-time and internship experience will 
be counted only if it is 18 hours or more a week for a minimum 
of 9 months and is in a single setting. The internship 
experience required under subsection (3)(a) and (3)(b) of this 
Section shall be a minimum of 1,750 hours completed within 24 
months.
    Programs leading to a doctoral degree require minimally 
the equivalent of 3 full-time academic years of graduate 
study, at least 2 years of which are at the institution from 
which the degree is granted, and of which at least one year or 
its equivalent is in residence at the institution from which 
the degree is granted. Course work for which credit is given 
for life experience will not be accepted by the Department as 
fulfilling the educational requirements for licensure. 
Residence requires interaction with psychology faculty and 
other matriculated psychology students; one year's residence 
or its equivalent is defined as follows:
        (a) 30 semester hours taken on a full-time or 
    part-time basis at the institution accumulated within 24 
    months, or
        (b) a minimum of 350 hours of student-faculty contact 
    involving face-to-face individual or group courses or 
    seminars accumulated within 18 months. Such educational 
    meetings must include both faculty-student and 
    student-student interaction, be conducted by the 
    psychology faculty of the institution at least 90% of the 
    time, be fully documented by the institution, and relate 
    substantially to the program and course content. The 
    institution must clearly document how the applicant's 
    performance is assessed and evaluated.
    To meet the requirement for satisfactory supervised 
experience, under this Act the supervision must be performed 
pursuant to the order, control and full professional 
responsibility of a licensed clinical psychologist. The 
clients shall be the clients of the agency or supervisor 
rather than the supervisee. Supervised experience in which the 
supervisor receives monetary payment or other consideration 
from the supervisee or in which the supervisor is hired by or 
otherwise employed by the supervisee shall not be accepted by 
the Department as fulfilling the practicum, internship or 2 
years of satisfactory supervised experience requirements for 
licensure.
    Examinations for applicants under this Act shall be held 
at the direction of the Department from time to time but not 
less than once each year. The scope and form of the examination 
shall be determined by the Department.
    Each applicant for a license who possesses the necessary 
qualifications therefor shall be examined by the Department, 
and shall pay to the Department, or its designated testing 
service, the required examination fee, which fee shall not be 
refunded by the Department. Beginning one year after the 
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General 
Assembly, the required examination may be taken upon 
graduation and before completion of a postdoctoral supervised 
experience in clinical, school, or counseling psychology. 
    Applicants have 3 years from the date of application to 
complete the application process. If the process has not been 
completed in 3 years, the application shall be denied, the fee 
shall be forfeited, and the applicant must reapply and meet 
the requirements in effect at the time of reapplication.
    An applicant has one year from the date of notification of 
successful completion of the examination to apply to the 
Department for a license. If an applicant fails to apply 
within one year, the applicant shall be required to take and 
pass the examination again unless licensed in another 
jurisdiction of the United States within one year of passing 
the examination.
(Source: P.A. 98-849, eff. 1-1-15; 99-572, eff. 7-15-16.)