The Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists adopts amendments to §463.11, concerning Professional Development without changes to the proposed text published in the September 23, 2016 issue of the Texas Register (41 TexReg 7425) and will not be republished.

The amendment is being adopted to ensure the protection and safety of the public.

The amendment, as adopted, 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.

No comments were received regarding the adoption of the amendment.

The amendment is adopted 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.