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Criminal Code 4. "Emergency service personnel" means individuals who provide emergency services to persons requiring medical aid, firefighting services, law enforcement assistance, or other emergency assistance. The term includes law enforcement officers, firefighters, rescue personnel, ambulance personnel, quick response personnel, emergency service dispatchers, nurses, physicians, and other emergency care providers.

5. "Mental health personnel" means psychiatrists, licensed psychologists, licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, nurses, members of the clergy, and other individuals approved by the state department of health to function as members of a critical incident stress management team, who have completed appropriate training as approved by the department.

6. "Peer support personnel" means those members of a critical incident stress management team who are emergency service personnel and who have completed appropriate training approved by the state department of health.

43 SECTION 26. AMENDMENT. Section 43-41-07 of the North Dakota Century Code as amended in section 2 of Senate Bill No. 2033, as approved by the sixty-fifth legislative assembly, is amended and reenacted as follows:

43-41-07. Qualification for licensure by an applicant licensed in another jurisdiction.

1. An applicant may be granted a license upon satisfactory:

a. Satisfactory proof to the board that the applicant is licensed in good standing under the laws of another jurisdiction that imposes substantially the same requirements as this chapter and a board determination; or

b. Determination of the board that at the time of application for licensure under this section the applicant is licensed in good standing under the laws of another jurisdiction and possesses qualifications or experience in the practice of social work which are substantially similar to the minimum requirements for licensure under this chapter.

2. The applicant shall pay the licensure fees specified by the board.

SECTION 27. AMENDMENT. Subdivision b of subsection 1 of section 43-48-15 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:

b. Being convicted of an offense, as defined by subsection 20 of section 12.1-01-04, and which the board determines has a direct bearing upon a person's ability to serve the public as a licensed clinical laboratory personnel or, following the conviction of any offense, if the board determines that the person is not sufficiently rehabilitated.

SECTION 28. AMENDMENT. Section 49-10.1-05 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:

49-10.1-05. Railroad police.

43 Section 43-41-07 was also amended by section 2 of Senate Bill No. 2033, chapter 299.