The Commissioner of Public Health shall require each person applying for licensure as a professional counselor to submit to a state and national fingerprint-based criminal history records check pursuant to section 29-17a. For the purposes of this section, 'professional counselor' means an individual licensed for the independent practice of professional counseling and 'licensure' means authorization by a state professional counseling regulatory authority to engage in the independent practice of professional counseling, the practice of which would be unlawful without such authorization.(P.A. 23-195, S. 13.)History: P.A. 23-195 effective July 1, 2023.
Connecticut Legal Code
§ 20-195ii
Connecticut Title 20 — Connecticut law
Source: https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_383c.htm#sec_20-195ii· Version 2026