2025 bills / S.B. 48
S.B. 48 Behavioral Health Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill expands the kinds of work that mental health therapists are allowed to do under their professional licenses. It also creates a new state account, the Mental Health Professionals Education and Enforcement Fund, and makes a minor technical fix to existing law.
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Official description
- makes a technical correction
- expands the scopes of practice for mental health therapists
- creates the Mental Health Professionals Education and Enforcement Fund
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Every vote
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · 1/27/2025 2:14 PMWho voted how
- 23 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFirst of two Senate votes · 2/6/2025 3:12 PMWho voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · 2/7/2025 11:46 AM
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee: vote to approve it · 2/13/2025 4:45 PMWho voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · 2/20/2025 10:46 AM