HB 110-PSYCHOLOGISTS' LICENSING & PRACTICE  3:50:42 PM CO-CHAIR KELLER announced that the first order of business would be HOUSE BILL NO. 110 "An Act relating to the practice and licensing of psychologists." [Before the committee, adopted as a working document earlier in the meeting prior to a power outage which interrupted the recording of the committee meeting, was the proposed committee substitute (CS) for HB 110, Version 26-LS0474\R, Bullard, 11/3/09.] LIZ CLEMENT, Staff to Representative Bob Herron, Alaska State Legislature, stated on behalf of Representative Herron, prime sponsor of HB 110, that as the qualifying exam by the State Board of Psychologist and Psychological Associate Examiners was now offered quarterly, allowing for a more efficient licensure system, the Board no longer saw a need to have the applicants wait the full six months to re-take the exam. She pointed out that the bill also clarified the licensure exemptions, and she shared that HB 110 would not impact either school psychologists working within school districts or U.S. government employees practicing psychology "while in the discharge of their official duties." She identified that HB 110 would only affect those people who represented themselves as psychologists. She announced that there was no significant cost to the state, and that it was supported by State Board of Psychologist and Psychological Associate Examiners, and the Alaska Psychological Association. 3:52:28 PM REPRESENTATIVE T. WILSON asked who requested for HB 110 to be introduced. 3:52:54 PM MS. CLEMENT responded that Dr. Lorin Bradbury, a psychologist from Bethel, had requested the bill. 3:53:03 PM REPRESENTATIVE T. WILSON asked if a large number of people had not passed the exam, and been forced to wait for six months under the current statute. MS. CLEMENT referred the question to Dr. Bradbury. 3:53:25 PM CO-CHAIR KELLER opened public testimony. 3:53:59 PM DR LORIN BRADBURY, Chair, State Board of Psychologists and Psychological Associate Examiners, shared that HB 110 would expedite the opportunity to re-take the exam. He affirmed that the bill clarified who needed to be licensed, and addressed the concerns of the State Board. 3:55:25 PM CO-CHAIR KELLER closed public testimony. 3:55:45 PM REPRESENTATIVE SEATON offered his appreciation for the legal opinion to his question of impact. 3:56:26 PM REPRESENTATIVE HOLMES said that she no longer had concerns for the bill. 3:57:27 PM REPRESENTATIVE T. WILSON moved to report CSHB 110, Version 26- LS0474\R, Bullard, 11/3/09 out of committee with individual recommendations and the accompanying zero fiscal note. 3:58:08 PM There being no objection, CSHB 110 (HSS) was reported from the House Health and Social Services Standing Committee.