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Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 34. PHYSICIANS, ACUPUNCTURE, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, CANCER AND GLAUCOMA TREATMENT, RESPIRATORY CARE, CLINICAL PERFUSIONISTS, AND ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS PRACTICE · Article 12. GENETIC COUNSELING

43-34-314. License required for practice; misrepresentation of status.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    On and after January 1, 2020, a person shall not engage in the practice of genetic counseling in this state without a valid license issued by the board pursuant to this article.#

  2. (b)

    A person shall not hold himself or herself out as a genetic counselor unless he or she holds a license issued by the board in accordance with this article. A person not licensed by the board pursuant to this article shall not use in connection with his or her name or place of business the terms ‘‘genetic counselor,’’ ‘‘licensed genetic counselor,’’ ‘‘gene counselor,’’ ‘‘genetic consultant,’’ ‘‘genetic associate,’’ or any words, letters, abbreviations, or insignia indicating or implying the person holds a genetic counseling license.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 43-34-314, enacted by Ga. L. 2019, p. 687, § 2/HB 166.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, this Code section, enacted as Code Section 43-34-304, was redesignated as Code Section 43-34-314.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t43-ch33-51-(v30a)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V30A, 2021 edition, page 254; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 6fb9eb45ca3a.