Application for Provisional Licensure

PURPOSE: This rule outlines and standardizes the procedures to be followed by applicants applying for provisional licensure. (1) Applications for provisional licensure must be made on the forms provided by the State Committee of Psychologists and accompanied by the appropriate fee. (2) The committee may issue a provisional license to practice psychology to any applicant who meets all the following requirements: (A) A completed application accompanied by the appropriate fee; (B) Official transcript received directly from an issuing institution verifying that the applicant is a graduate of a recognized educational institution with a doctoral degree in psychology as defined in section 337.025, RSMo; (C) A post-degree supervision plan or a completed supervision agreement submitted by the primary supervisor made on the form provided by the State Committee of Psychologists; (D) Submission of references on forms provided by the committee by three (3) mental health professionals other than post-doctoral supervisors who have known the applicant a minimum of two (2) years. The references cannot be from classmates; and (E) Proof of submission of fingerprints to the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s approved vendor for both a Missouri State Highway Patrol and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) fingerprint background check. Any fees due for fingerprinting background checks shall be paid by the applicant. (3) Unless sooner suspended, revoked, and/or terminated because of the issuance of a regular ongoing license, the provisional license shall, as provided in 337.020.5, RSMo, expire one (1) year from date of issuance unless timely renewed. A provisional license, absent extenuating circumstances and a showing of good cause, may only be renewed for a period of one (1) additional year so that the maximum period for a provisional license absent approval from the committee shall be only two (2) years. (4) Applicants seeking a variance from the requirement of a maximum issuance of two (2) years due to vacations, illness, pregnancy, and other good causes shall submit the request in writing to the committee, which will be handled on a case-bycase basis. (5) The provisional license shall only permit the licensee to provide psychological services in accordance with the “postdegree supervision plan” as submitted to the committee and only under and pursuant to the direct supervision and full professional responsibility and control of the primary supervisor and any secondary supervisors as identified in the post-degree supervision plan as filed with the committee. (6) Absent death, sudden illness, or other extenuating circumstance on the part of the supervisor which precludes such supervisor from acting, any person who holds a provisional license who desires to amend the plan and/or to change supervisors, whether primary or secondary, must do so by filing at least twenty (20) days before said amended and/ or revised plan is to take effect, a revised and/or amended plan together with information as to who is to be the new supervisor(s). (7) Except as noted in section (6) hereof, the committee shall not accept, or recognize, as counting towards the required period of post-degree supervision, any time during which the provisional licensee may have been or was providing psychological services under the supervision of some person prior to the time the identity of such person had first been disclosed by the timely filing of a revised and/or amended plan of post-degree supervision. (8) Any person acting under or providing psychological services pursuant to a provisional license shall at all times comply with provisions of 20 CSR 2235-2.040 or 20 CSR 2235-2.050 including, without limitation, the representation provisions set forth in subsection (1)(I) thereof. AUTHORITY: sections 337.020 and 337.050.9, RSMo Supp. 2020.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 235-1.025. Original rule filed July 26, 1999, effective Feb. 29, 2000. Moved to 20 CSR 2235-1.025, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed July 9, 2008, effective Jan. 30, 2009. Amended: Filed June 5, 2013, effective Jan. 30, 2014. Amended: Filed Nov. 16, 2020, effective May 30, 2021. *Original authority: 337.020, RSMo 1977, amended 1981, 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2018, 2020 and 337.050.9, RSMo 1977, amended 1981, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2020.