The Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists proposes amendments to §463.11, Licensed Psychologist. The proposed amendment is necessary to allow those applicants who complete their post-doctoral year of supervised experience prior to September 1, 2016, to utilize that experience for licensure purposes. Absent this amendment, an applicant who completed his or her post-doctoral year of supervised experience prior to September 1, 2016, would be unable to count that experience toward the post-doctoral experience required under subsection (d) of this rule, because the applicant may not have been provisionally licensed when he or she acquired the experience and could not have obtained provisional trainee status at that time. This amendment will not operate to exempt an applicant from the applicability of the gap rules set forth in subsection (d)(1)(B) of this rule.

Darrel D. Spinks, Executive Director, has determined that for the first five-year period the proposed amendment will be in effect, there will be no fiscal implications for state or local governments as a result of enforcing or administering the rule.

Mr. Spinks has also determined that for each year of the first five years the rule is in effect, the public benefit anticipated as a result of enforcing the rule will be to help the Board protect the public. There will be no economic costs to persons required to comply with this rule. There will be no effect on small businesses or local economies.

Comments on the proposed amendment may be submitted to Brenda Skiff, Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, 333 Guadalupe, Ste 2-450, Austin, Texas 78701, within 30 days of publication of this proposal in the Texas Register. Comments may also be submitted via fax to (512) 305-7701, or via email to brenda@tsbep.texas.gov.

The amendment is proposed under Texas Occupations Code, Title 3, Subtitle I, Chapter 501, which provides the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists with the authority to make all rules, not inconsistent with the Constitution and Laws of this State, which are reasonably necessary for the proper performance of its duties and regulations of proceedings before it.

No other code, articles or statutes are affected by this section.