                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

EXEMPTION FROM REQUIREMENTS OF LICENSURE (§ 54.1-3601)

The requirements for licensure provided for in this chapter shall not be
applicable to:

1. Persons who render services that are like or similar to those falling within
the scope of the classifications or categories in this chapter, so long as the
recipients or beneficiaries of such services are not subject to any charge or
fee, or any financial requirement, actual or implied, and the person rendering
such service is not held out, by himself or otherwise, as a licensed
practitioner or a provider of clinical or school psychology services.

2. The activities or services of a student pursuing a course of study in
psychology in an institution accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by
the Board or under the supervision of a practitioner licensed or certified under
this chapter, if such activities or services constitute a part of his course of
study and are adequately supervised.

3. The activities of rabbis, priests, ministers or clergymen of any religious
denomination or sect when such activities are within the scope of the
performance of their regular or specialized ministerial duties, and no separate
charge is made or when such activities are performed, whether with or without
charge, for or under the auspices or sponsorship, individually or in conjunction
with others, of an established and legally cognizable church, denomination or
sect, and the person rendering service remains accountable to its established
authority.

4. Persons employed as salaried employees or volunteers of the federal
government, the Commonwealth, a locality, or any agency established or funded,
in whole or part, by any such governmental entity or of a private, nonprofit
organization or agency sponsored or funded, in whole or part, by a
community-based citizen group or organization, except that any such person who
renders psychological services, as defined in this chapter, shall be (i)
supervised by a licensed psychologist or clinical psychologist; (ii) licensed by
the Department of Education as a school psychologist; or (iii) employed by a
school for students with disabilities which is certified by the Board of
Education. Any person who, in addition to the above-enumerated employment,
engages in an independent private practice shall not be exempt from the
licensure requirements.

5. Persons regularly employed by private business firms as personnel managers,
deputies or assistants so long as their counseling activities relate only to
employees of their employer and in respect to their employment.

6. Any psychologist holding a license or certificate in another state, the
District of Columbia, or a United States territory or foreign jurisdiction
consulting with licensed psychologists in this Commonwealth.

7. Any psychologist holding a license or certificate in another state, the
District of Columbia, or a United States territory or foreign jurisdiction when
in Virginia temporarily and such psychologist has been issued a temporary
license by the Board to participate in continuing education programs or
rendering psychological services without compensation to any patient of any
clinic which is organized in whole or in part for the delivery of health care
services without charge as provided in &#xA7; 54.1-106.

8. The performance of the duties of any commissioned or contract clinical
psychologist in active service in the army, navy, coast guard, marine corps, air
force, space force, or public health service of the United States while such
individual is so commissioned or serving.

9. Any person performing services in the lawful conduct of his particular
profession or business under state law.

10. Any person duly licensed as a psychologist in another state or the District
of Columbia who testifies as a treating psychologist or who is employed as an
expert for the purpose of possibly testifying as an expert witness.

11. Any psychologist who is licensed in another state, the District of Columbia,
or a United States territory or possession and who is in good standing with the
applicable regulatory agency in that state, the District of Columbia, or that
United States territory or possession who provides behavioral health services,
as defined in &#xA7; 37.2-100, to a patient located in the Commonwealth when (i)
such practice is for the purpose of providing continuity of care through the use
of telemedicine services as defined in &#xA7; 38.2-3418.16 and (ii) the
psychologist has previously established a practitioner-patient relationship with
the patient. A psychologist who provides behavioral health services to a patient
located in the Commonwealth through use of telemedicine services pursuant to
this subdivision may provide such services for a period of no more than one year
from the date on which the psychologist began providing such services to such
patient.

HISTORY: 1976, c. 608, § 54-944; 1986, c. 581; 1988, c. 765; 1996, cc. 937,
980; 2000, c. 462; 2022, c. 275; 2024, c. 817.