HCS HB 555 -- COMPLAINTS BY INMATES AGAINST PROFESSIONAL
COUNSELORS AND LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKERS (Cooper, 155)

COMMITTEE OF ORIGIN:  Health Care Policy

This substitute revises the complaint procedure and document
retention requirements when an inmate files a complaint against a
licensed professional counselor or licensed clinical social
worker.  When a complaint by an inmate is found to be lacking
merit, no further disciplinary action will take place, no
documentation will appear on file, and no notification will be
given to the Committee for Professional Counselors or the State
Committee for Social Workers within the Department of Insurance,
Financial Institutions, and Professional Registration unless
there are grounds for disciplinary action to be taken against a
counselor's license.  Licensees subject to claims without merit
prior to the effective date of the substitute may request the
committees to destroy documents pertaining to the claim, to
notify other state licensing boards that the claim was
unsubstantiated, and to supply him or her with a letter stating
that the claim was unsubstantiated.  Licensees will not be
required to disclose the existence of unsubstantiated claims.

FISCAL NOTE:  No impact on state funds in FY 2008, FY 2009, and
FY 2010.

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated July 25, 2007 at 11:19 am