ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

Senate: RAGE 7-0-0-0 | Third Read 29-1-0-0

☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note

SB 1145: behavior analysts; committee; regulatory authority

Sponsor: Senator Bolick, LD 2

Committee on Health & Human Services

Overview

Effective January 1, 2027, delegates to the Committee on Behavior Analysts the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners (Board) authority to license and regulate behavior analysts.

History

The Board states its mission is "to protect the health, safety and welfare of Arizona citizens by licensing and regulating the professions of Psychology and Behavior Analysis."  This 90/10 state agency licenses and regulates psychologists and behavior analysts.

The 5-member Committee on Behavior Analysts makes recommendations to the Board regarding licensing and regulation of its profession. The Committee on Behavior Analysts may recommend regulatory changes to the Board after obtaining public input from other behavior analyst licensees.

Behavior analysis is the design, implementation and evaluation of systematic environmental modifications by a behavior analyst to produce socially significant improvements in human behavior based on the principles of behavior identified through the experimental analysis of behavior (A.R.S. §§ 32-2091; 32-2091.15; Board).

Provisions

1.   Delegates the Board's authority to license and regulate behavior analysts to the Committee on Behavior Analysts. (Sec. 2)

2.   Requires the Board to adopt substantive policy statements for each specific licensing and regulatory authority it delegates to the Committee on Behavior Analysts. (Sec. 2)

3.   Removes the requirement for the Board to receive and consider regulatory changes pertaining to the practice of behavior analysts and recommendations from the Committee on Behavior Analysts. (Sec. 2-3)

4.   Decreases the Board's membership from 10 to 8 members by removing the two appointed behavior analysts. (Sec. 1)

5.   Reduces, from seven to five, the number of licensed professionals on the Board. (Sec. 1)

6.   Removes the requirement that two members of the Committee on Behavior Analysts be members of Board. (Sec. 3)

7.   Contains an effective date of January 1, 2027. (Sec. 4)

8.   Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1-2)

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