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 (20 diagnostic and 20 therapeutic); Children (20 diagnostic and 20 therapeutic); or (ii) Language – Adult (20 diagnostic and 20 therapeutic); Children (20 diagnostic and 20 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.

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		 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

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		 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2009