Tex. Occ. Code § 504.160 · Subchapter D. LICENSE AND REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
ISSUANCE OF LICENSE TO CERTAIN OUT-OF-STATE APPLICANTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The department may, on application and payment of the appropriate fee, issue a license to a person who is licensed or certified by another state as a chemical dependency counselor if the department determines that the license or certificate requirements of that state are substantially equivalent to the requirements of this chapter.
(b) The department may waive any license requirement for an applicant with a license or certificate issued by another state with which this state has a reciprocity agreement.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1373 (S.B. 155), Sec. 9, eff. September 1, 2007.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.504.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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