Genetic Counseling Act

The Genetic Counseling Act regulates the practice of genetic counseling as a licensed health profession, requiring a license to practice or hold oneself out as a genetic counselor while exempting certain individuals and activities from that requirement. It establishes the qualifications an applicant must satisfy for licensure, provides for temporary licenses and for periodic renewal, and authorizes fees for the licensing program. It also sets out the legislature's findings and purposes and defines the terms that govern the act's scope, and it ties the treatment of an applicant's criminal history to the state's general law on the employment of criminal offenders.

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