[CHAPTER 453D]

MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS

 

Section

   453D-1 Definitions

   453D-2 Mental health counselors licensing program

   453D-3 Powers and duties of the director

   453D-4 Fees; disposition

   453D-5 Prohibited acts

   453D-6 Exemptions

   453D-7 Application for licensure as a mental health counselor

   453D-8 Reciprocity

   453D-9 Examination

  453D-10 Licensure; fees

  453D-11 Renewal of license; fees

  453D-12 Grounds for refusal to renew, reinstate, or restore,

          and for revocation, suspension, denial, or condition

          of, licenses

  453D-13 Confidentiality and privileged communications

  453D-14 Mental health counselor prohibited from testifying in

          alimony and divorce actions

 

Note

 

  This chapter is repealed effective December 31, 2008 pursuant to §26H-4(b).

  L 2004, c 209, §§4 and 5 provide:

  "SECTION 4.  The department of commerce and consumer affairs may appoint an administrative assistant and secretary, without regard to chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to assist with the activities of the mental health counselors licensing program.

  SECTION 5.  Upon the issuance of a new license and at each license renewal period, each mental health counselor shall pay an additional fee of $75, which shall be maintained in a separate account within the compliance resolution fund established pursuant to section 26-9(o), Hawaii Revised Statutes.  At the end of each quarter, the moneys contained in the separate account established pursuant to this section shall be transferred to the general fund until such time that the total transferred amounts equal the amount appropriated in section 6 [$61,000] of this Act.  Thereafter, no surcharge shall be assessed, and any funds in excess of the amount appropriated in section 6 [$61,000] of this Act shall be deposited in the compliance resolution fund."