HB 866 -- COMPLAINTS AGAINST LICENSED PROFESSIONALS

SPONSOR:  Wells

COMMITTEE ACTION:  Voted "do pass by consent" by the Special
Committee on Professional Registration and Licensing by a vote of
13 to 0.

This bill allows the State Board of Registration for the Healing
Arts and the State Committee for Social Workers within the
Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional
Registration to remove unsubstantiated complaints made against
licensed social workers and physicians by offenders who have been
ordered into custody, detained, or held by the Department of
Mental Health as sexually violent predators.

FISCAL NOTE:  No impact on state funds in FY 2010, FY 2011, and
FY 2012.

PROPONENTS:  Supporters say that there are frivolous complaints
brought against mental health providers and physicians working in
the Missouri Sexual Offender Treatment Center.  The bill will
give these professionals the same protections as persons working
in correctional facilities.

Testifying for the bill were Representative Smith (150); and
Division of Comprehensive Psychiatric Services, Department of
Mental Health.

OPPONENTS:  There was no opposition voiced to the committee.

Missouri House of Representatives
95th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated November 17, 2009 at 9:25 am