PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 576

CHAPTER 576
(Senate Bill 340)

AN ACT concerning

State Board of Examiners of Professional Connselors - Drug and Alcohol Therapists
Alcohol and Drag Connselors - Certification

FOR the purpose of certifying certain counselors who provide drug and alcohol therapy
alcohol and drug counseling; establishing certain qualifications for certification of
counselors who provide drug and alcohol therapy alcohol and drug counseling:
restricting the use of certain titles and initials; altering the membership of the State
Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors; authorizing the State Board of
Examiners of Professional Counselors to waive examination requirements for
certain applicants and to waive certification requirements for certain individuals;
defining certain terms; repealing a certain provision of law that exempts the
employment related activities and services of certain individuals from the Maryland
Psychologists Act; providing for the effective dates of this Act; providing for the
construction of this Act; and generally relating to the certification of counselors who
provide drug and alcohol therapy alcohol and drug counseling.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health Occupations
Section 17-101, 17-202, 17-205, 17-301, 17-302(d)(4), 17-305, 17-306, 17-308, and

17-401
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health Occupations

Section 17-302.3 through 17-302.5

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments.
Article - Health Occupations
Section 18-102
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement
(As enacted by Chapter 598 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1995)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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