2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25100614D

SENATE BILL NO. 752

Offered January 8, 2025

Prefiled December 4, 2024

A BILL to direct the Board of Psychology to convene a work group to assess the feasibility of authorizing clinical psychologists to obtain and utilize prescriptive authority; report.

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Patron—Favola

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Referred to Committee on Education and Health

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Board of Psychology (the Board) shall convene a work group composed of relevant stakeholders, including representatives of the Board of Medicine, the Board of Pharmacy, and the Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists to assess the feasibility of authorizing clinical psychologists licensed in the Commonwealth to obtain and utilize prescriptive authority. In completing its work, the work group shall identify the necessary regulations required to implement such prescriptive authority, including training, education, and licensure requirements. The work group shall report its findings to the Chairs of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by November 1, 2025.