Title 34 — Title 34

As used in this compact, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY. Full-time duty status in the active uniformed service of the United States, including members of the National Guard and Reserve on active duty orders pursuant to 10 U.S.C. Chapters…

(a) To participate in the compact, a state must currently: (1) License and regulate licensed professional counselors; (2) Require licensees to pass a nationally recognized exam approved by the commission; (3) Require licensees to have a 60 semester-hour (or 90 quarter-hour) maste…

(a) To exercise the privilege to practice under the terms and provisions of the compact, the licensee shall: (1) Hold a license in the home state; (2) Have a valid United States Social Security number or national practitioner identifier; (3) Be eligible for a privilege to practic…

(a) A licensed professional counselor may hold a home state license, which allows for a privilege to practice in other member states, in only one member state at a time. (b) If a licensed professional counselor changes primary state of residence by moving between two member state…

Active duty military personnel, or their spouses, shall designate a home state where the individual has a current license in good standing. The individual may retain the home state designation during the period the service member is on active duty. Subsequent to designating a hom…

(a) Member states shall recognize the right of a licensed professional counselor, licensed by a home state in accordance with Section 34-8A-52 and under rules adopted by the commission, to practice professional counseling in any member state via telehealth under a privilege to pr…

(a) In addition to the other powers conferred by state law, a remote state shall have the authority, in accordance with existing state due process law, to: (1) Take adverse action against a licensed professional counselor’s privilege to practice within that member state; (2) Issu…

(a) The compact member states hereby create and establish a joint public agency known as the Counseling Compact Commission: (1) The commission is an instrumentality of the compact states. (2) Venue is proper and judicial proceedings by or against the commission shall be brought s…

(a) The commission shall provide for the development, maintenance, operation, and utilization of a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse action, and investigative information on all licensed individuals in member states. (b) Notwithstanding any o…

Renewal. (a) A licensee may request that the board designate his or her license with inactive status at any point prior to the date of renewal. Granting inactive status to a licensee revokes all privileges associated with this chapter until reactivation is requested by the licens…

(a) The commission shall adopt reasonable rules in order to effectively and efficiently achieve the purpose of the compact. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event the commission exercises its rulemaking authority in a manner that is beyond the scope of the purposes of the co…

(a) Oversight. (1) The executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government in each member state shall enforce this compact and take all actions necessary and appropriate to effectuate the compact’s purposes and intent. The provisions of this compact and the rules ad…

Associated Rules, Withdrawal, and Amendment. (a) The compact shall come into effect on the date on which the compact statute is enacted into law in the tenth member state. The provisions which become effective at that time shall be limited to the powers granted to the commission …

This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any member state or of the Un…

(a) A licensee providing professional counseling services in a remote state under the privilege to practice shall adhere to the laws and regulations, including scope of practice, of the remote state. (b) Nothing in this compact prevents the enforcement of any other law of a membe…

Except as to judicial proceedings for the enforcement of this compact among member states, individuals may pursue judicial proceedings related to this compact in any Alabama state or federal court that would otherwise have competent jurisdiction. History: (Act 2022-89, §16.)

Designation. The board shall issue a license as a licensed professional counselor to each applicant who files an application upon a form and in a manner as the board prescribes, accompanied by a fee as is required in this chapter, and who furnishes satisfactory evidence of the fo…

The board shall issue a license as an associate licensed counselor to each applicant who files an application upon a form and in such manner as the board prescribes accompanied by such fees as are required by this chapter, and who furnishes satisfactory evidence of the following …

For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) IMPAIRED. An inability to practice counseling with reasonable skill and safety to clients by reason of illness, inebriation, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, alcohol, chemicals, or other subs…

(a) The board shall promote the early identification, intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation of licensees who may be impaired. (b) The board may contract with any nonprofit corporation or medical professional association for the purpose of creating, supporting, and maintaini…

The Alabama Licensed Counselor Wellness Program is created to develop, maintain, and make available treatment programs for all licensees who voluntary seek medical intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation for an impairment. The program shall operate under the direction of the …

The Alabama Licensed Counselor Wellness Committee may perform all of the following functions and duties: (1) Receive and evaluate reports of suspected impairment from any source, including referrals from the board. (2) Intervene in the case of a verified impairment. (3) Refer imp…

(a) The wellness program is a confidential non-punitive alternative to disciplinary sanction for an impaired licensee who voluntarily seeks medical intervention, evaluation, treatment, counseling, or rehabilitation for his or her impairment. (b)(1) A licensee who does all of the …

(a) All information, interviews, reports, statements, memorandum, or other documents furnished to or produced by the Alabama Licensed Counselor Wellness Committee and any findings, conclusions, interventions, treatment, or rehabilitation, and related actions of the committee are …

Any licensee appointed to serve as a member of the Alabama Licensed Counselor Wellness Committee and any auxiliary personnel, consultants, attorneys, or other volunteers or employees of the committee taking any action authorized by this article, engaging in the performance of any…

After investigation of the application and other evidence submitted, the board shall notify each applicant that the application and evidence submitted is satisfactory and accepted or unsatisfactory and rejected. If rejected, the notice shall state the reasons for such rejection. …

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is the policy of the state to promote the skill, art, and practice of court reporting in order to assure that court reporters possess the necessary skills and qualifications and that a board be established to prescribe the qualifi…

(a) To be licensed as a court reporter, an applicant shall be a United States citizen or, if not a citizen of the United States, a person who is legally present in the United States with appropriate documentation from the federal government, and shall pass the Written Knowledge E…

(a) The board shall enter into reciprocal agreements with any state, agency, or other entity that licenses, certifies, or registers court reporters (NCRA or NVRA, or both) if the board finds that the state, agency, or other entity has substantially the same or more stringent requ…

The annual fees for licensure pursuant to this chapter shall be established by the board and shall cover a 12-month period beginning October 1 of each year. All fees collected by the board shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the Board of Court Reporting Fund wh…

Each person licensed pursuant to this chapter shall apply for renewal of his or her license pursuant to dates established by the board. A renewal fee in an amount determined by the board shall be paid and thereupon the board shall issue a numbered license establishing that the ho…

(a) Any person who is engaged in the practice of court reporting on June 1, 2006, and who provides to the board an affidavit setting forth his or her past education and work experience as a court reporter and an affidavit of a judge for whom he or she has worked as an official co…

(a) Commencing on August 1, 2012, any person who is a graduate of a court reporting program may receive a temporary license to practice as a court reporter from the board. Application for the temporary graduate license shall be made to the board, on forms approved by the board, a…

The board shall establish an inactive status for persons who are not actively engaged in the practice of court reporting. History: (Act 2006-200, p. 289, §16.)

All moneys collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited into the Board of Court Reporting Fund. All expenses incurred by the board in implementing and administering this chapter shall be paid out of the fund provided that the expenses of the board shall not be in excess …

The board shall be an enumerated board pursuant to Sections 41-20-1 to 41-20-16, inclusive. The board is subject to the provisions of the Alabama Sunset Law of 1981. The board shall automatically terminate on September 30, 2008, and every four years thereafter, unless a bill is p…

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ACRA. The Alabama Court Reporters Association. (2) BOARD. The Alabama Board of Court Reporting. (3) CERTIFIED COURT REPORTER (C.C.R.). Any person licensed pursuant to this chapter to practice verb…

No person, except as otherwise provided by law, shall practice or attempt to practice court reporting in this state or hold himself or herself out as a court reporter unless the person is a licensed court reporter. History: (Act 2006-200, p. 289, §3.)

Compensation. (a) There is created the Alabama Board of Court Reporting. The board shall be operative within 60 days of June 1, 2006. ACRA shall provide administrative support to the board until such time as the board employs sufficient employees to implement and administer this …

The board shall have all of the following duties and responsibilities: (1) Act on matters concerning competency licensure only and the process of granting, suspending, reinstating, and revoking a license. (2) Establish a procedure for the investigation of complaints against licen…

(a) All complaints shall be in writing, signed by the person making the complaint, and addressed to the chair of the board. All complaints shall contain the name and address of the person against whom the complaint is brought and a description of the conduct giving rise to the co…

The board shall promulgate rules necessary to implement and administer this chapter. The rules shall be adopted pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. The rules shall be published in the standards of professional practice and made available to all licensees. Histor…

After January 1, 2007, any person who undertakes or attempts to undertake the practice of court reporting for remuneration without first having procured a license, or who knowingly presents or files false information with the board for the purpose of obtaining a license or who vi…

(a) The board may sue and be sued in its own name to recover actual or compensatory damages, including interest and court costs, sustained as the result of disciplinary action taken against any licensee or any other person who violates this chapter or rules promulgated hereunder.…

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) ADMINISTER. When used in reference to a controlled substance, the direct application of a controlled substance to the body of a patient by a dentist by injection, inha…

(a)(1) Every individual who desires to practice dentistry within the State of Alabama shall file an application accompanied by the appropriate fee prescribed by the board. (2) Notwithstanding any particular requirement or method of obtaining licensure set forth in this chapter, e…

(a) The board may issue a special volunteer license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene, or both, in this state pursuant to this section. (b) The board may issue or deny issuance of a special volunteer license, and the denial, suspension, restriction, limitation, or revocatio…

When an application and accompanying proof as required under this chapter are found satisfactory, the board shall notify the applicant to appear for examination at a time and place to be fixed by the board, and each applicant shall be examined and graded by number in lieu of name…

(a) Every person granted a license to practice dentistry or dental hygiene in this state by the board, as herein provided, shall cause his or her license certificate to be recorded in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which he or she desires to practice before b…

Every practitioner of dentistry and dental hygiene within the meaning of this chapter shall have in his or her possession and posted in a visible location a license certificate and an annual registration certificate in the office wherein he or she practices. A licensed practition…