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11  Senator Gutman moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

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17         Section 242.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of

18  section 490.005, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

19         490.005  Licensure by examination.--

20         (1)  Any person desiring to be licensed as a

21  psychologist shall apply to the department to take the

22  licensure examination. The department shall license each

23  applicant who the board certifies has:

24         (b)  Submitted proof satisfactory to the board that the

25  applicant has:

26         1.  Received doctoral-level psychological education, as

27  defined in s. 490.003(3);

28         2.  Received the equivalent of a doctoral-level

29  psychological education, as defined in s. 490.003(3), from a

30  program at a school or university located outside the United

31  States of America and Canada, which was officially recognized

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 1  by the government of the country in which it is located as an

 2  institution or program to train students to practice

 3  professional psychology.  The burden of establishing that the

 4  requirements of this provision have been met shall be upon the

 5  applicant; or

 6         3.  Received and submitted to the board, prior to July

 7  1, 1999, certification of an augmented doctoral-level

 8  psychological education from the program director of a

 9  doctoral-level psychology program accredited by a programmatic

10  agency recognized and approved by the United States Department

11  of Education; or.

12         4.  Received and submitted to the board, prior to July

13  1, 2001, certification of a doctoral-level program that at the

14  time the applicant was enrolled and graduated maintained a

15  standard of training comparable to the standard of training of

16  programs accredited by the American Psychological Association,

17  as such comparability was determined immediately prior to the

18  amendment of section 490.005, Florida Statutes, 1994

19  Supplement, by section 5 of chapter 95-279, Laws of Florida.

20  However, this subparagraph applies only to applicants who were

21  enrolled in such a program before October 1, 1995. This

22  subparagraph is repealed on July 1, 2001.

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28  And the title is amended as follows:

29         On page 4, line 21, after the semicolon

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 1         amending s. 490.005, F.S.; revising

 2         requirements for licensure as a psychologist by

 3         examination to grandfather in certain

 4         applicants; providing for future repeal of such

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