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HF4595 • 2026

Requirements for licensure by reciprocity for marriage and family therapists modified.

Requirements for licensure by reciprocity for marriage and family therapists modified.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Schomacker, Backer, Franson, Schwartz, Nadeau, Repinski, Curran, Bahner, Carroll, Bierman, Zeleznikar, Gillman, Lillie
Last action
2026-04-28
Official status
Received from House
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requirements for licensure by reciprocity for marriage and family therapists modified.

Requirements for licensure by reciprocity for marriage and family therapists modified.

What This Bill Does

  • Requirements for licensure by reciprocity for marriage and family therapists modified.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-28 Senate

    Received from House

  2. 2026-04-27 House

    Third reading

  3. 2026-04-23 House

    House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day 04/27/2026

  4. 2026-04-07 House

    Committee report, to adopt

  5. 2026-03-26 House

    Authors added Zeleznikar and Gillman

  6. 2026-03-23 House

    Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy

Official Summary Text

Requirements for licensure by reciprocity for marriage and family therapists modified.

Current Bill Text

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A bill for an act

relating to health occupations; modifying requirements for licensure by reciprocity

for marriage and family therapists; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section

148B.35.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 148B.35, is amended to read:

148B.35 RECIPROCITY WITH OTHER STATES.

The board shall issue a marriage and family therapist's license to an individual who holds

a current license as a marriage and family therapist from another jurisdiction if the
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board

determines that the standards for licensure in the other jurisdiction are at least equivalent

to or exceed the requirements of sections
148B.29
to
148B.392
and the rules of the board.
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individual:
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(1) completes an application for licensure by reciprocity on a form provided by the board

and submits the applicable fees under section 148B.392;

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(2) holds a current, valid, and unrestricted license from another jurisdiction to practice

as a marriage and family therapist;

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(3) is licensed in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the individual currently

holds a license to practice as a marriage and family therapist and is not the subject of

disciplinary action or a pending investigation by any jurisdiction's licensing authority for

marriage and family therapists;

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(4) has not been convicted of a crime that would disqualify the individual from licensure,

as determined by the board; and

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(5) has passed a Minnesota jurisprudence examination approved by the board.

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