HCS HB 555 -- COMPLAINTS BY INMATES AGAINST PROFESSIONAL
COUNSELORS AND LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKERS

This bill revises the complaint procedure and document retention
requirements when an inmate files a complaint against a licensed
professional counselor or licensed clinical social worker.  When
a complaint by an inmate is found to be lacking merit, no further
disciplinary action will take place, no documentation will appear
on file, and no notification will be given to the Committee for
Professional Counselors or the State Committee for Social Workers
within the Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions, and
Professional Registration unless there are grounds for
disciplinary action to be taken against a counselor's license.  A
licensee subject to a claim without merit prior to the effective
date of the bill may request the committees to destroy documents
pertaining to the claim, to notify other state licensing boards
that the claim was unsubstantiated, and to supply him or her with
a letter stating that the claim was unsubstantiated.  Licensees
will not be required to disclose the existence of unsubstantiated
claims.

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated July 25, 2007 at 11:19 am