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BHEC.(n.d.). Behavioral Health Executive Council-homepage. Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council.
This is the home page of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council (BHEC). It has links to member regulatory boards for specific professional licenses and some administrative links. This is where you can review pending rule changes, find board meeting minutes and agendas, apply for a license when you are ready, explore the discipline and complaint process, and review relevant statutes and board rules.

BHEC. (n.d.). Texas State Board of Examiners and Professional Counselors-homepage. Texas State Board of Examiners and Professional Counselors.
This is the home page of the TSBEPC. The TSBEPC is one of the member boards of the BHEC. It has a brief introduction to the board and a set of important links that are more specific to Counseling-there is some overlap with links on the BHEC home page.

BHEC. (n.d.). Behavioral Health Executive Council statutes and rules. Behavioral Health Executive Council.
This is where you will find links to all of the current versions of relevant Texas laws and rules of the BHEC member boards. Please review and download a copy of the current Consolidated Rulebook for Professional Counseling. This document usually changes a few times per year, so make sure you are getting the most recent version. Once you sign up for email updates in Lesson 1, you will be notified of updates.

Texas Sunset Advisory Commission (n.d.). Sunset Advisory Commission-homepage. State of Texas Sunset Advisory Commission.
The creation of BHEC was a product or Sunset review in Texas in 2019. This page explains the Texas sunset law (all state agencies must justify their existence periodically) and explains how the sunset process works.