[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 1 (Thursday, January 4, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Pages S114-S115]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. REID (for Mr. Inouye):
  S. 110. A bill to allow the psychiatric or psychological examinations 
required under chapter 313 of title 18, United States Code, relating to 
offenders with mental disease or defect, to be conducted by a clinical 
social worker; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
  Mr. INOUYE. Mr. President, today I introduce legislation to amend 
Title 18 of the United States Code to allow our Nation's clinical 
social workers to use their mental health expertise on behalf of the 
Federal judiciary by conducting psychological and psychiatric exams.
  I feel that the time has come to allow our Nation's judicial system 
to have access to a wide range of behavioral science and mental health 
expertise. I am confident that the enactment of this legislation would 
be very much in our Nation's best interest.
  I ask unanimous consent that the text of this bill be printed in the 
Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

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                                 S. 110

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Psychiatric and 
     Psychological Examinations Act of 2007''.

     SEC. 2. EXAMINATIONS BY CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKERS.

       Section 4247(b) of title 18, United States Code, is 
     amended, in the first sentence, by striking ``psychiatrist or 
     psychologist'' and inserting ``psychiatrist, psychologist, or 
     clinical social worker''.
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