GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SESSION LAW 2009-138
HOUSE BILL 18
AN ACT to amend specific experience hours of the four hundred clock hours required for permanent licensure as a speech and language pathologist.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 90-295(a)(3) reads as rewritten:
"(3) Submit evidence of the
completion of a minimum of 400 clock hours of supervised, direct clinical
experience with individuals who present a variety of communication disorders.
This experience must have been obtained within the training institution or in
one of its cooperating programs in the following areas: (i) Speech - Adult (20020
diagnostic and 20020 therapeutic); Children (20020
diagnostic and 20020 therapeutic); or (ii) Language - Adult (20020
diagnostic and 20020 therapeutic); Children (20020
diagnostic and 20020 therapeutic). Each new applicant must submit
a verified clinical clock hour summary sheet signed by the clinic or program
director, in addition to completion of the license application."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8th day of June, 2009.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 11:53 a.m. this 19th day of June, 2009