Montana Title 37. Professions and Occupations § 37-1-139. Definition--joint duties of boards--sexual offender evaluator license endorsement--rulemaking

(a) board of behavioral health as established in 2-15-1744;

(b) board of medical examiners as established in 2-15-1731;

(c) board of nursing as established in 2-15-1734; and

(d) board of psychologists as established in 2-15-1741.

(a) jointly establish, develop rules, and maintain standards, consistent with appropriate national standards for evaluation and treatment of sexual offenders, and guidelines for evidence-based assessment, evaluation, treatment, and behavioral monitoring of sexual offenders, including the transition into community-based treatment from a prison setting;

(b) create a subcommittee to draft requirements for sexual offender evaluators. The subcommittee must include one member of each board and two licensees of the boards listed in subsection (1) who have been engaged in the practice of evaluating sexual offenders during the last 4 years.

(c) require sexual offender evaluators to use the following levels of risk designations for a sexual offender:

(d) using recommendations from the subcommittee, set and enforce educational and experiential requirements for licensees of each of the boards to obtain a license endorsement as a sexual offender evaluator. A person may not perform sexual offender evaluations for purposes of this section without first obtaining a license endorsement.

(a) is a professional licensed in Montana or in another state as:

(b) has 2,000 documented hours of supervised experience in the evaluation and treatment of sexual offenders, at least 400 hours of which are face-to-face evaluations of sexual offenders or therapy sessions with sexual offenders. The provisions of this subsection (3)(b) do not apply when an evaluator is renewing the endorsement.

(c) has completed at least two sexual offender evaluations under supervision;

(d) is a full or clinical member of at least one relevant national professional organization that has ethics of practice for sexual offender assessment and treatment; and

(e) must renew the license endorsement concurrent with the evaluator's professional license.