House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition.

Deletes all of the previous provisions. Changes the act's long and short titles.

Modifies GS Chapter 90C to include in its scope licensed music therapists and changes the title of the Chapter to North Carolina Recreational and Music Therapy Licensure Act. Amends GS 90C-22 to define licensed music therapist and music therapy. Defines music therapy as the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program, as specified. 

Amends GS 90C-23 to rename the North Carolina Recreational Therapy Licensure Board as the North Carolina Recreational and Music Therapy Licensure Board (Board). Makes conforming changes throughout the Chapter. Increases the composition of the Board from eight to ten members to include two practicing music therapists appointed by the General Assembly, one recommended by the President Pro Tempore and one by the Speaker. Provides that the initial music therapist Board member recommended by the Speaker will serve a two-year term, with subsequent music therapist Board members recommended by the Speaker serving a term in accordance with subsection (d), which provides for three-year staggered terms. Adds that initial music therapist Board members do not have to be licensed upon appointment, but requires initial music therapist Board members to satisfy applicable licensure requirements once they are established. Adds that, for the one public member that must have received recreational therapy or therapeutic recreation services, that public member can have alternatively received music therapy or music therapy services. 

Amends GS 90C-24(13), expanding the directive of the Board to establish or approve reasonable competency requirements for licensure and renewal to include continuing music therapy education.

Amends GS 90C-27 to add a new subsection requiring the Board to license any person as a licensed music therapist who: (1) meets a minimum level of education, clinical training, and experience as defined by the rules of the Board and (2) meets the passage of an appropriate examination as a music therapist offered by the Board or current certification as a Music Therapist-Board Certified (MT-BC) from the Certification Board for Music Therapists. 

Amends GS 90C-29 to include music therapy license renewal in the existing provisions concerning license renewal under the Chapter.

Amends GS 90C-32, adding to the actions that can trigger revocation, suspension, or denial of licensure to include (1) practicing music therapy without a current license and (2) having a music therapy license revoked or suspended, or subject to other disciplinary action in North Carolina or another jurisdiction.

Amends GS 90C-33 to include in the reciprocity provisions music therapy licensure by a similar Board of another country, state, or territory whose licensing standards are substantially equivalent to or higher than those required by the Chapter.

Amends GS 90C-34, making conforming changes to the list of persons and practices not affected by the Chapter.

Effective January 1, 2018.