FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 554

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES COOPER (155) (Sponsor), SCHAAF, BURNETT, DAY AND ONDER (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time January 24, 2007 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

0970L.01I

AN ACT

To amend chapter 337, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to licensed professional counselors.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 337, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 337.503, to read as follows:

            337.503. No official, employee, board, commission, county, municipality, school district, agency of the state, or any other political subdivision thereof shall discriminate between persons licensed under sections 337.500 to 337.540 when promulgating regulations or when requiring or recommending services that legally may be performed by persons licensed under sections 337.500 to 337.540.

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