Separate Standards Committees for Professional Counseling Specialty, Social Work Specialty, and Marriage and Family Therapy Specialty

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  5. Separate Standards Committees for Professional Counseling Specialty, Social Work Specialty, and Marriage and Family Therapy Specialty

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  1. Those members of the board from the professional counseling specialty, the social work specialty, and the marriage and family therapy specialty shall constitute a separate standards committee for their respective specialty. Each standards committee by majority vote shall approve or disapprove the granting of all licenses in that specialty, approve the examination required of applicants for licensure in that committee's specialty and provide for the grading of that examination, and provide for other matters relating to licensure in that specialty.
  2. No decision of a standards committee shall become effective until approved by the board. The board may initiate or otherwise act regarding any matter in which a standards committee is authorized to act. No decision of the board regarding a particular specialty shall become effective without the approval of at least two of the members of the standards committee for that specialty.
  3. Meetings of a standards committee shall be reimbursed on the same basis as board meetings.

(Code 1981, §43-7A-6, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1406, § 1.)


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