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319.032 Authority for administrative regulations.
(1)
The board shall promulgate administrative regulations:
(a) Establishing requirements, standards, and tests to determine the moral,
intellectual, educational, scientific, technical, and professional qualifications
of applicants for licensure; and preparing or selecting and administering
examinations on general psychological knowledge. Neither certified
psychologists, licensed psychological practitioners, nor licensed psychological
associates may participate in the examination of applicants for licensure as
licensed psychologists;
(b) Establishing and defining the scope of practice within the field of psychology;
(c) Setting the requirements for issuing, denying, suspending, restricting, and
revoking licenses, and placing credential holders on probation;
(d) Developing specific guidelines to follow upon receipt of an allegation of
sexual misconduct by a person credentialed by the board. The guidelines shall
include investigation, hearing officer, and hearing procedures which ensure
that the process does not revictimize the alleged victim or cause harm if a
credential holder is falsely accused;
(e) Requiring training for the board and investigators hired by the board on the
dynamics of sexual misconduct of professionals, including the nature of this
abuse of authority, characteristics of the offender, the impact on the victim,
the possibility and the impact of false accusations, investigative procedure in
sex offense cases, and effective intervention with victims and offenders;
(f) Establishing requirements for continuing education not to exceed thirty-nine
(39) contact hours per three (3) year renewal period as a condition for renewal
of licenses, the increased requirement to be a condition for renewal of licenses
beginning with renewals occurring after June 30, 2013;
(g) Establishing and collecting reasonable fees for directories, transcribing,
transferring of records, and other services;
(h) Conducting hearings or appointing hearing officers to conduct hearings on any
matter under the jurisdiction of the board, in accordance with KRS Chapter
13B;
(i) Entering into reciprocal agreements with boards of examiners of psychology
of other states having qualifications and standards at least as high as those of
this state providing for reciprocal licensure;
(j) Employing personnel, including hearing officers which it considers necessary
for the performance of its functions, determining the duties of personnel, and
compensating them within the limits of funds available to the board;
(k) Investigating complaints or suspected violations of this chapter and notifying
proper law enforcement authorities. For the purpose of enforcing the
provisions of this chapter, the board shall have the authority to administer
oaths, receive evidence, interview persons, issue subpoenas, and require the
productions of books, papers, documents, or other evidence;
(l)
(2)
(3)
Governing the supervision of certified psychologists and the supervision and
employment of licensed psychological associates and candidates for licensure;
(m) Developing specific guidelines to allow school psychologists who are dually
credentialed by the Education Professional Standards Board and the board to
obtain supervision acceptable to the board from a licensed psychologist who is
neither an employee nor contractor of the school system that employs the
school psychologist being supervised; and
(n) Notwithstanding the fee schedules specified in this chapter, increasing or
decreasing fees as it deems appropriate.
The board shall have the authority to promulgate other administrative regulations as
it deems necessary for the proper administration of this chapter.
The board, at its discretion, may use funds as necessary to purchase liability
insurance for members and executive officers of the board, inspectors, examiners,
investigators, and staff members exempt from classified service of the state by KRS
18A.115.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 3, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2001 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 6, effective June 21, 2001. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch.
318, sec. 275, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 265, sec. 8,
effective July 15, 1994; and ch. 470, sec. 8, effective July 15, 1994. – Amended
1992 Ky. Acts ch. 104, sec. 4, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch.
291, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1988. -- Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 128, sec. 6,
effective July 15, 1986.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/2010). 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 3,
subsec. (1)(f), replaced "thirty (30) contact hours" with "thirty-nine (39) contact
hours," and inserted the clause that provides, "the increased requirement to be a
condition for renewal of licenses beginning with renewals occurring after June 30,
2013."
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/94). This statute was amended by 1994
Ky. Acts chs. 265 and 470, which were companion bills and are substantively
identical. These Acts have been codified together. For the few minor variations
between the Acts, Acts ch. 470 prevails under KRS 446.250, as the Act which passed
the General Assembly last.
Legislative Research Commission Note (11/19/91, amended 7/15/94). Pursuant to KRS
7.136(1), the Reviser of Statutes has replaced the word "suspended" in subsection (9)
of this statute (1986 Acts ch. 128, sec. 6) with "suspected" to correct a manifest
clerical or typographical error. (1992 Acts ch. 104, sec. 4 renumbered the former
subsection (9) of this statute as subsection (1)(i); 1994 Acts ch. 470, sec. 8
renumbered subsection (1)(i) as subsection (1)(k).)
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