Sec. 501.252. PSYCHOLOGIST LICENSE APPLICATION. (a) To be licensed under this chapter, a person must apply to the board for a license. The board shall issue a license to an applicant who:
(1) complies with this section; and
(2) pays the fee set by the board.
(b) A person may not be licensed as a psychologist unless the person:
(1) is provisionally licensed as a psychologist under this chapter; and
(2) has had at least two years of supervised experience in the field of psychological services, one year of which may be as part of the doctoral program and at least one year of which began after the date the person's doctoral degree was conferred by an institution of higher education.
(c) For purposes of Subsection (b)(2), experience is supervised only if the experience is supervised by a psychologist in the manner provided by the board's supervision guidelines.
(d) To determine the acceptability of an applicant's professional experience, the board may require documentary evidence of the quality, scope, and nature of the applicant's experience.
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
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