TITLE 19

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 56

IDAHO DRUG COURT AND MENTAL HEALTH COURT ACT

19-5610.  counseling service in drug courts and mental health courts. Any licensee licensed under chapter 34, title 54, Idaho Code, who is in good standing with the Idaho state licensing board of professional counselors and marriage and family therapists shall be eligible to provide professional counseling services to an adult receiving service through a drug court or mental health court established pursuant to this chapter. No licensee shall be automatically disqualified from providing professional counseling services because of a prior criminal conviction. For purposes of this section, the relevancy of a licensee’s prior criminal conviction shall be evaluated pursuant to section 67-9411, Idaho Code.

History:

[19-5610, added 2023, ch. 48, sec. 1, p. 195.]