Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB450: Revises requirements to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor by endorsement. (
Status: Chaptered, June 6, 2025
Revises requirements to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor by endorsement. (BDR 54-335)
What the bill says
An act relating to professions; revising requirements to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor by endorsement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists and clinical professional counselors by the Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors…
From the enrolled text, May 26, 2025:
AN ACT relating to professions; revising requirements to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor by endorsement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists and clinical professional counselors by the Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors. (Chapter 641A of NRS) Existing law sets forth procedures by which a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor who is licensed in the District of Columbia or any state or territory of the United States may obtain a license by endorsement to practice in this State. Under existing law, the Board is authorized to issue such a license by endorsement to an applicant who submits to the Board, among other things, proof satisfactory to the Board that the applicant has not been disciplined or investigated by the corresponding regulatory authority of the District of Columbia or the state or territory in which the applicant holds a license as a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor, as applicable. (NRS 641A.242) This bill instead requires, rather than authorizes, the Board to issue such a license by endorsement to an applicant who meets the applicable requirements. This bill additionally eliminates the requirement that an applicant …
Sponsors
- Elaine Marzola (D, 21) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Chapter 315.
- : Approved by the Governor.
- : Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
- : Senate Amendment No. 584 concurred in. To enrollment.
- : In Assembly.
- : Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To Assembly.
- : From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Second reprint. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- : Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 584.) To printer.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
- : Read first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
Votes
- Senate (2nd Reprint) (May 21, 2025): 21 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Assembly (1st Reprint) (April 17, 2025): 42 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is AB450?
- AB450 is a bill in the Nevada Legislature (83rd Legislature (2025)): Revises requirements to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor by endorsement. (.
- What does AB450 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to professions; revising requirements to obtain a license as a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor by endorsement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists and clinical professional counselors by the Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors…
- What is the status of AB450?
- Chaptered as of June 6, 2025. Latest action: Chapter 315. (June 6, 2025).
- Who sponsored AB450?
- Elaine Marzola (D, 21).
- Where is the official record for AB450?
- On the Nevada Legislature website: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12665/Overview
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