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Assistant Behavior Analyst License

Practice of applied behavior analysis under supervision of a Michigan licensed behavior analyst.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Licensure by endorsement — another state

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Equivalent standards: Satisfy the substantial-equivalence and qualification requirements of MCL 333.16186 and R 338.1824; the Board may require a personal qualifications interview, which is an applicant condition rather than a separately identified examination.
Existing license: Hold a current assistant behavior analyst license in another state.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Guide wording: The Assistant Behavior Analyst Licensing Guide, endorsement checklist on page 2, states: "Must hold a current behavior analyst license in another state or in a province of Canada." R 338.1824(2)(c) instead requires a current assistant behavior analyst license; the administrative rule controls the qualification used here.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Licensure by endorsement — canadian province

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Billing: Perform services billed in Michigan and originate third-party reimbursement requests from the Michigan place of employment under MCL 333.16186(1)(d).
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
Education: Complete the educational requirements in Canada or the United States under MCL 333.16186(1)(c).
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Equivalent standards: Satisfy the substantial-equivalence and qualification requirements of MCL 333.16186 and R 338.1824; the Board may require a personal qualifications interview, which is an applicant condition rather than a separately identified examination.
Existing license: Hold a current assistant behavior analyst license in a Canadian province.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Guide wording: The Assistant Behavior Analyst Licensing Guide, endorsement checklist on page 2, states: "Must hold a current behavior analyst license in another state or in a province of Canada." R 338.1824(2)(c) instead requires a current assistant behavior analyst license; the administrative rule controls the qualification used here.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
National examination equivalence: MCL 333.16186(3) permits a Board-approved United States national examination or a Board-approved Canadian national examination to establish equivalence; the Canadian examination and any unnamed slot are conditions. The current BACB certification requirement still identifies the registered United States examination.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Initial licensure through BACB certification

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Renewal within 60 days after expiration

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Apply within 60 days after expiration; pay the renewal and late fees and meet continued-competency requirements. Practice and title use may continue during this statutory period.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Initial licensure without examination for a military member, veteran or dependent

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Competence: Demonstrate professional competence by training, experience or another prescribed method.
Criminal background: Complete the criminal history check required by MCL 333.16174(3).
Equivalent license: Hold a current license or registration in good standing in another state or country; the department must determine substantially equivalent or higher licensing requirements.
Implementing certification: The general licensing guide states: "Proof of current certification in good standing with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) must be submitted directly from the BACB to this office". That general implementing instruction is recorded for the applicant; it does not override the specific statutory issuance without examination.
Military status: Establish armed-forces or uniformed-services membership, veteran status, or qualifying dependent status.
Statutory exception: MCL 333.16186a(1) expressly grants initial licensure without examination notwithstanding contrary Article 15 requirements.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Michigan Public Health Code, MCL 333.16186a
MCL 333.16186a(1)
Michigan Public Health Code, MCL 333.16174
MCL 333.16174(1)
Michigan Behavior Analysts General Rules
R 338.1823(2), application and BACB certification

Relicensure more than three years after expiration

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: The license expired more than three years ago.
Fingerprints: Provide fingerprints under R 338.1825(2)(f) and MCL 333.16174(3).
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retaking: The default retesting rule in MCL 333.16201(4) is expressly subject to contrary rules. R 338.1825(2) prescribes current BACB certification; it does not require every applicant with current certification to retake the certification examination.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Relicensure within three years after expiration

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: The license was not renewed within 60 days and expired no more than three years ago.
Fingerprints: R 338.1825(1) does not add the fingerprints condition imposed by subrule (2); the licensing guide exempts relicensure applicants whose licenses expired within the last three years from its background-check instruction.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Ordinary renewal

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Assistant Behavior Analyst License — Limited

Practice of applied behavior analysis under supervision of a Michigan licensed behavior analyst. Statutory limited form under the cited general Public Health Code provision.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Initial limited licensure

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Board determination that a limitation is consistent with safe and competent practice, patient protection or efficient health care delivery.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Limited license relicensure after three years

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply more than three years after expiration; satisfy R 338.1825(2), including fingerprints.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Board determination that a limitation is consistent with safe and competent practice, patient protection or efficient health care delivery.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Limited license relicensure within three years

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply after expiration but within three years; satisfy R 338.1825(1).
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Board determination that a limitation is consistent with safe and competent practice, patient protection or efficient health care delivery.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Limited license renewal

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Renew by expiration or within the statutory 60-day grace period, meeting continued-competency requirements and any applicable late fee.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Limited form: Board determination that a limitation is consistent with safe and competent practice, patient protection or efficient health care delivery.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Assistant Behavior Analyst License — Clinical Academic Limited

Practice of applied behavior analysis under supervision of a Michigan licensed behavior analyst. Statutory clinical academic limited form under the cited general Public Health Code provision.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Initial clinical academic limited licensure

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Practice only through academic-institution employment or another contractual relationship.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Clinical Academic Limited license relicensure after three years

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply more than three years after expiration; satisfy R 338.1825(2), including fingerprints.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Practice only through academic-institution employment or another contractual relationship.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Clinical Academic Limited license relicensure within three years

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply after expiration but within three years; satisfy R 338.1825(1).
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Practice only through academic-institution employment or another contractual relationship.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Clinical Academic Limited license renewal

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Renew by expiration or within the statutory 60-day grace period, meeting continued-competency requirements and any applicable late fee.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Limited form: Practice only through academic-institution employment or another contractual relationship.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Assistant Behavior Analyst License — Educational Limited

Practice of applied behavior analysis under supervision of a Michigan licensed behavior analyst. Statutory educational limited form under the cited general Public Health Code provision.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Initial educational limited licensure

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Postgraduate education.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Educational Limited license relicensure after three years

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply more than three years after expiration; satisfy R 338.1825(2), including fingerprints.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Postgraduate education.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Educational Limited license relicensure within three years

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply after expiration but within three years; satisfy R 338.1825(1).
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Postgraduate education.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Educational Limited license renewal

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Renew by expiration or within the statutory 60-day grace period, meeting continued-competency requirements and any applicable late fee.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Limited form: Postgraduate education.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Assistant Behavior Analyst License — Nonclinical Limited

Practice of applied behavior analysis under supervision of a Michigan licensed behavior analyst. Statutory nonclinical limited form under the cited general Public Health Code provision.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Initial nonclinical limited licensure

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: A nonclinical academic, research or administrative role without holding out as actively practicing or soliciting patients.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Nonclinical Limited license relicensure after three years

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply more than three years after expiration; satisfy R 338.1825(2), including fingerprints.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: A nonclinical academic, research or administrative role without holding out as actively practicing or soliciting patients.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Nonclinical Limited license relicensure within three years

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply after expiration but within three years; satisfy R 338.1825(1).
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: A nonclinical academic, research or administrative role without holding out as actively practicing or soliciting patients.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Nonclinical Limited license renewal

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Renew by expiration or within the statutory 60-day grace period, meeting continued-competency requirements and any applicable late fee.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Limited form: A nonclinical academic, research or administrative role without holding out as actively practicing or soliciting patients.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Assistant Behavior Analyst License — Special Volunteer

Practice of applied behavior analysis under supervision of a Michigan licensed behavior analyst. Statutory special volunteer form under the cited general Public Health Code provision.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Initial special volunteer licensure

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Beneficiaries: Donate services for indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved Michigan areas.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Compensation: Acknowledge and document no direct or indirect compensation or expectation of compensation.
Continuing education: After at least three years out of practice, document at least two-thirds of the otherwise required renewal education during the preceding three years.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Fees: MCL 333.16184(2) specifically provides no fee for issuance or renewal of this special volunteer license.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ordinary qualifications: MCL 333.16184(2)-(3) requires the applicable professional license qualifications and Article 15 requirements, including current BACB certification under R 338.1823 and R 338.1831.
Practice scope: Practice only within the professional scope held before retirement.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retirement: Previously hold the Michigan professional license in good standing when it expired, intending to cease practice for remuneration.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.

Special volunteer late renewal

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Beneficiaries: Donate services for indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved Michigan areas.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Compensation: Acknowledge and document no direct or indirect compensation or expectation of compensation.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Renew within 60 days after expiration, meeting applicable continued-competency requirements.
Fees: MCL 333.16184(2) specifically provides no fee for issuance or renewal of this special volunteer license.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Practice scope: Practice only within the professional scope held before retirement.
Retirement: Previously hold the Michigan professional license in good standing when it expired, intending to cease practice for remuneration.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.
Updated acknowledgment: Provide updated acknowledgment and documentation of uncompensated services under MCL 333.16184(2).
Volunteer eligibility: Continue to meet the uncompensated-practice, retirement and beneficiary conditions of MCL 333.16184; its specific issuance and renewal fee exception controls.

Special volunteer relicensure after three years

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Beneficiaries: Donate services for indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved Michigan areas.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Compensation: Acknowledge and document no direct or indirect compensation or expectation of compensation.
Continuing education: After at least three years out of practice, document at least two-thirds of the otherwise required renewal education during the preceding three years.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: The volunteer license expired more than three years ago; provide fingerprints and satisfy the current professional qualifications.
Fees: MCL 333.16184(2) specifically provides no fee for issuance or renewal of this special volunteer license.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ordinary qualifications: MCL 333.16184(2)-(3) requires the applicable professional license qualifications and Article 15 requirements, including current BACB certification under R 338.1823 and R 338.1831.
Practice scope: Practice only within the professional scope held before retirement.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retirement: Previously hold the Michigan professional license in good standing when it expired, intending to cease practice for remuneration.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.
Volunteer eligibility: Continue to meet the uncompensated-practice, retirement and beneficiary conditions of MCL 333.16184; its specific issuance and renewal fee exception controls.

Special volunteer relicensure within three years

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Beneficiaries: Donate services for indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved Michigan areas.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Compensation: Acknowledge and document no direct or indirect compensation or expectation of compensation.
Continuing education: After at least three years out of practice, document at least two-thirds of the otherwise required renewal education during the preceding three years.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: The volunteer license expired more than 60 days but no more than three years ago.
Fees: MCL 333.16184(2) specifically provides no fee for issuance or renewal of this special volunteer license.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ordinary qualifications: MCL 333.16184(2)-(3) requires the applicable professional license qualifications and Article 15 requirements, including current BACB certification under R 338.1823 and R 338.1831.
Practice scope: Practice only within the professional scope held before retirement.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retirement: Previously hold the Michigan professional license in good standing when it expired, intending to cease practice for remuneration.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.
Volunteer eligibility: Continue to meet the uncompensated-practice, retirement and beneficiary conditions of MCL 333.16184; its specific issuance and renewal fee exception controls.

Renewal of the special volunteer license

BCaBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Beneficiaries: Donate services for indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved Michigan areas.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Compensation: Acknowledge and document no direct or indirect compensation or expectation of compensation.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Fees: MCL 333.16184(2) specifically provides no fee for issuance or renewal of this special volunteer license.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Practice scope: Practice only within the professional scope held before retirement.
Retirement: Previously hold the Michigan professional license in good standing when it expired, intending to cease practice for remuneration.
Supervision: Provide proof of supervision by a Michigan licensed behavior analyst who is currently BACB certified and in good standing; supervision must satisfy current BACB requirements and the supervising licensee completes the verification form.
Updated acknowledgment: Provide updated acknowledgment and documentation of uncompensated services under MCL 333.16184(2).

Behavior Analyst License

Practice of applied behavior analysis.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Licensure by endorsement — another state

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Equivalent standards: Satisfy the substantial-equivalence and qualification requirements of MCL 333.16186 and R 338.1824; the Board may require a personal qualifications interview, which is an applicant condition rather than a separately identified examination.
Existing license: Hold a current behavior analyst license in another state.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Licensure by endorsement — canadian province

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Billing: Perform services billed in Michigan and originate third-party reimbursement requests from the Michigan place of employment under MCL 333.16186(1)(d).
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
Education: Complete the educational requirements in Canada or the United States under MCL 333.16186(1)(c).
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Equivalent standards: Satisfy the substantial-equivalence and qualification requirements of MCL 333.16186 and R 338.1824; the Board may require a personal qualifications interview, which is an applicant condition rather than a separately identified examination.
Existing license: Hold a current behavior analyst license in a Canadian province.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
National examination equivalence: MCL 333.16186(3) permits a Board-approved United States national examination or a Board-approved Canadian national examination to establish equivalence; the Canadian examination and any unnamed slot are conditions. The current BACB certification requirement still identifies the registered United States examination.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Initial licensure through BACB certification

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Renewal within 60 days after expiration

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Apply within 60 days after expiration; pay the renewal and late fees and meet continued-competency requirements. Practice and title use may continue during this statutory period.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.

Initial licensure without examination for a military member, veteran or dependent

No examination is required for this applicant pathway.

Competence: Demonstrate professional competence by training, experience or another prescribed method.
Criminal background: Complete the criminal history check required by MCL 333.16174(3).
Equivalent license: Hold a current license or registration in good standing in another state or country; the department must determine substantially equivalent or higher licensing requirements.
Implementing certification: The general licensing guide states: "Proof of current certification in good standing with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) must be submitted directly from the BACB to this office". That general implementing instruction is recorded for the applicant; it does not override the specific statutory issuance without examination.
Military status: Establish armed-forces or uniformed-services membership, veteran status, or qualifying dependent status.
Statutory exception: MCL 333.16186a(1) expressly grants initial licensure without examination notwithstanding contrary Article 15 requirements.

Official no-examination sources

Effective from 2026-09-22.

Michigan Public Health Code, MCL 333.16186a
MCL 333.16186a(1)
Michigan Public Health Code, MCL 333.16174
MCL 333.16174(1)
Michigan Behavior Analysts General Rules
R 338.1823(1), application and BACB certification

Relicensure more than three years after expiration

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: The license expired more than three years ago.
Fingerprints: Provide fingerprints under R 338.1825(2)(f) and MCL 333.16174(3).
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retaking: The default retesting rule in MCL 333.16201(4) is expressly subject to contrary rules. R 338.1825(2) prescribes current BACB certification; it does not require every applicant with current certification to retake the certification examination.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Relicensure within three years after expiration

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: The license was not renewed within 60 days and expired no more than three years ago.
Fingerprints: R 338.1825(1) does not add the fingerprints condition imposed by subrule (2); the licensing guide exempts relicensure applicants whose licenses expired within the last three years from its background-check instruction.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Ordinary renewal

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.

Behavior Analyst License — Limited

Practice of applied behavior analysis. Statutory limited form under the cited general Public Health Code provision.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Initial limited licensure

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Board determination that a limitation is consistent with safe and competent practice, patient protection or efficient health care delivery.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Limited license relicensure after three years

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply more than three years after expiration; satisfy R 338.1825(2), including fingerprints.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Board determination that a limitation is consistent with safe and competent practice, patient protection or efficient health care delivery.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Limited license relicensure within three years

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply after expiration but within three years; satisfy R 338.1825(1).
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Board determination that a limitation is consistent with safe and competent practice, patient protection or efficient health care delivery.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Limited license renewal

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Renew by expiration or within the statutory 60-day grace period, meeting continued-competency requirements and any applicable late fee.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Limited form: Board determination that a limitation is consistent with safe and competent practice, patient protection or efficient health care delivery.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.

Behavior Analyst License — Clinical Academic Limited

Practice of applied behavior analysis. Statutory clinical academic limited form under the cited general Public Health Code provision.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Initial clinical academic limited licensure

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Practice only through academic-institution employment or another contractual relationship.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Clinical Academic Limited license relicensure after three years

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply more than three years after expiration; satisfy R 338.1825(2), including fingerprints.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Practice only through academic-institution employment or another contractual relationship.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Clinical Academic Limited license relicensure within three years

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply after expiration but within three years; satisfy R 338.1825(1).
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Practice only through academic-institution employment or another contractual relationship.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Clinical Academic Limited license renewal

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Renew by expiration or within the statutory 60-day grace period, meeting continued-competency requirements and any applicable late fee.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Limited form: Practice only through academic-institution employment or another contractual relationship.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.

Behavior Analyst License — Educational Limited

Practice of applied behavior analysis. Statutory educational limited form under the cited general Public Health Code provision.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Initial educational limited licensure

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Postgraduate education.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Educational Limited license relicensure after three years

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply more than three years after expiration; satisfy R 338.1825(2), including fingerprints.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Postgraduate education.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Educational Limited license relicensure within three years

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply after expiration but within three years; satisfy R 338.1825(1).
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: Postgraduate education.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Educational Limited license renewal

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Renew by expiration or within the statutory 60-day grace period, meeting continued-competency requirements and any applicable late fee.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Limited form: Postgraduate education.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.

Behavior Analyst License — Nonclinical Limited

Practice of applied behavior analysis. Statutory nonclinical limited form under the cited general Public Health Code provision.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Initial nonclinical limited licensure

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: A nonclinical academic, research or administrative role without holding out as actively practicing or soliciting patients.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Nonclinical Limited license relicensure after three years

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply more than three years after expiration; satisfy R 338.1825(2), including fingerprints.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: A nonclinical academic, research or administrative role without holding out as actively practicing or soliciting patients.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Nonclinical Limited license relicensure within three years

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: Apply after expiration but within three years; satisfy R 338.1825(1).
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Limited form: A nonclinical academic, research or administrative role without holding out as actively practicing or soliciting patients.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Nonclinical Limited license renewal

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Board determination: The Board may grant the limited license under MCL 333.16182; it determines appropriate limitations and qualifications case by case. This discretion and any additional unnamed evaluation are applicant conditions.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Renew by expiration or within the statutory 60-day grace period, meeting continued-competency requirements and any applicable late fee.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Limited form: A nonclinical academic, research or administrative role without holding out as actively practicing or soliciting patients.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Ongoing certification: R 338.1831 applies to a licensee throughout the license cycle and does not exempt the statutory limited forms; maintain current BACB certification in good standing. This identifies the same currently offered certification examination without asserting that every limited applicant must sit it again.
Retained limitations: Continuation of this limited form preserves its Board-approved practice limitations and the circumstances justifying that form; removing or altering a disciplinary limitation is a separate reclassification pathway.

Behavior Analyst License — Special Volunteer

Practice of applied behavior analysis. Statutory special volunteer form under the cited general Public Health Code provision.

Licensing authority: Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs and Michigan Board of Behavior Analysts · Application information

Initial special volunteer licensure

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Beneficiaries: Donate services for indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved Michigan areas.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Compensation: Acknowledge and document no direct or indirect compensation or expectation of compensation.
Continuing education: After at least three years out of practice, document at least two-thirds of the otherwise required renewal education during the preceding three years.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Fees: MCL 333.16184(2) specifically provides no fee for issuance or renewal of this special volunteer license.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ordinary qualifications: MCL 333.16184(2)-(3) requires the applicable professional license qualifications and Article 15 requirements, including current BACB certification under R 338.1823 and R 338.1831.
Practice scope: Practice only within the professional scope held before retirement.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retirement: Previously hold the Michigan professional license in good standing when it expired, intending to cease practice for remuneration.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.

Special volunteer late renewal

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Beneficiaries: Donate services for indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved Michigan areas.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Compensation: Acknowledge and document no direct or indirect compensation or expectation of compensation.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Expiration window: Renew within 60 days after expiration, meeting applicable continued-competency requirements.
Fees: MCL 333.16184(2) specifically provides no fee for issuance or renewal of this special volunteer license.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Practice scope: Practice only within the professional scope held before retirement.
Retirement: Previously hold the Michigan professional license in good standing when it expired, intending to cease practice for remuneration.
Updated acknowledgment: Provide updated acknowledgment and documentation of uncompensated services under MCL 333.16184(2).
Volunteer eligibility: Continue to meet the uncompensated-practice, retirement and beneficiary conditions of MCL 333.16184; its specific issuance and renewal fee exception controls.

Special volunteer relicensure after three years

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Beneficiaries: Donate services for indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved Michigan areas.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Compensation: Acknowledge and document no direct or indirect compensation or expectation of compensation.
Continuing education: After at least three years out of practice, document at least two-thirds of the otherwise required renewal education during the preceding three years.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: The volunteer license expired more than three years ago; provide fingerprints and satisfy the current professional qualifications.
Fees: MCL 333.16184(2) specifically provides no fee for issuance or renewal of this special volunteer license.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ordinary qualifications: MCL 333.16184(2)-(3) requires the applicable professional license qualifications and Article 15 requirements, including current BACB certification under R 338.1823 and R 338.1831.
Practice scope: Practice only within the professional scope held before retirement.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retirement: Previously hold the Michigan professional license in good standing when it expired, intending to cease practice for remuneration.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Volunteer eligibility: Continue to meet the uncompensated-practice, retirement and beneficiary conditions of MCL 333.16184; its specific issuance and renewal fee exception controls.

Special volunteer relicensure within three years

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Beneficiaries: Donate services for indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved Michigan areas.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Compensation: Acknowledge and document no direct or indirect compensation or expectation of compensation.
Continuing education: After at least three years out of practice, document at least two-thirds of the otherwise required renewal education during the preceding three years.
Criminal background: Submit fingerprints for the state and national criminal history checks except where the relicensure rule does not require them.
English proficiency: Demonstrate a working knowledge of English through English-taught professional education, at least 60 college credits from an English-speaking school, an approved credential evaluation, or the department-approved English proficiency examination. A language test is an applicant condition.
Expiration window: The volunteer license expired more than 60 days but no more than three years ago.
Fees: MCL 333.16184(2) specifically provides no fee for issuance or renewal of this special volunteer license.
Good moral character: Establish good moral character and the education, experience or equivalent training required by MCL 333.16174.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete two hours of implicit bias training within the five years immediately preceding license issuance.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Minimum age: Be at least 18 years old under MCL 333.16174(1)(a).
Ordinary qualifications: MCL 333.16184(2)-(3) requires the applicable professional license qualifications and Article 15 requirements, including current BACB certification under R 338.1823 and R 338.1831.
Practice scope: Practice only within the professional scope held before retirement.
Prior licenses: Disclose all prior health-profession licenses, registrations and certifications; issuing authorities must verify no pending discipline or sanctions in force; provide signed consent for release of disciplinary investigation information.
Retirement: Previously hold the Michigan professional license in good standing when it expired, intending to cease practice for remuneration.
Social security number: Provide a social security number or the applicable affidavit if exempt or without a number.
Volunteer eligibility: Continue to meet the uncompensated-practice, retirement and beneficiary conditions of MCL 333.16184; its specific issuance and renewal fee exception controls.

Renewal of the special volunteer license

BCBA Certification Examination

Application: Submit the department application and applicable fee; current BACB certification must be submitted directly by BACB.
Attestation: Provide truthful renewal attestation and explanations of good moral character and previously unreported disciplinary sanctions.
Beneficiaries: Donate services for indigent and needy individuals or individuals in medically underserved Michigan areas.
Certification: Maintain current BACB certification in good standing: BCaBA for an assistant behavior analyst, BCBA for a behavior analyst. The examination leaf identifies the currently offered certification examination; holding certification does not require every applicant to retake it.
Compensation: Acknowledge and document no direct or indirect compensation or expectation of compensation.
Current license: Hold the existing Michigan license; its ordinary license cycle is four years.
Fees: MCL 333.16184(2) specifically provides no fee for issuance or renewal of this special volunteer license.
Human trafficking training: Complete the one-time training meeting R 338.1821; the rule applies to renewals beginning with the 2023 cycle and initial licenses beginning January 7, 2024.
Implicit bias training: Complete one hour of implicit bias training for each year of the renewal cycle before renewal.
Listed offense: No conviction of a listed offense under MCL 28.722; a denial may be challenged at the statutory hearing.
Practice scope: Practice only within the professional scope held before retirement.
Retirement: Previously hold the Michigan professional license in good standing when it expired, intending to cease practice for remuneration.
Updated acknowledgment: Provide updated acknowledgment and documentation of uncompensated services under MCL 333.16184(2).

BCaBA Certification Examination

Provider: Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB); delivered by Pearson VUE in person at authorized Pearson VUE testing sites
Format: Computer-based multiple-choice examination, continuously available and offered only in English; each question has 4 possible answers and only 1 correct answer; all questions are equally weighted and the result is based on overall performance
Exam questions: 175 multiple-choice questions: 150 scored and 25 unscored
Time limit: 4 hours
Passing score: Pass/fail; criterion-referenced passing score established by the modified Angoff method
Exam fee: $175 certification application (BACB) plus $125 examination appointment (Pearson VUE)

Examination outline

A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations (10 of 150 scored questions) (7%)
- A.1. Explain the goals of behavior analysis as a natural science (i.e., description, prediction, control).
- A.2. Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism).
- A.3. Describe and explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism.
- A.4. Distinguish among behaviorism, the experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, and professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis.
- A.5. Identify and describe dimensions of applied behavior analysis (Baer, Wolf, & Risley, 1968).
B. Concepts and Principles (18 of 150 scored questions) (12%)
- B.1. Identify and distinguish among behavior, response, and response class.
- B.2. Identify and distinguish between stimulus and stimulus class.
- B.3. Identify and distinguish between respondent and operant conditioning.
- B.4. Identify and distinguish between positive and negative reinforcement contingencies.
- B.5. Identify and distinguish between positive and negative punishment contingencies.
- B.6. Identify and distinguish between automatic and socially mediated contingencies.
- B.7. Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized reinforcers and punishers.
- B.8. Identify and distinguish among simple schedules of reinforcement.
- B.9. Identify examples of operant extinction.
- B.10. Identify and distinguish between types of stimulus control.
- B.11. Identify and distinguish between discrimination and generalization.
- B.12. Define and identify examples of unconditioned motivating operations.
- B.13. Identify and distinguish between rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior.
- B.14. Identify and distinguish among elementary verbal operants.
- B.15. Define and identify examples of processes that promote emergent relations and generative performance.
C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation (20 of 150 scored questions) (13%)
- C.1. Define and identify dimensions of behavior (e.g., count, duration, magnitude).
- C.2. Describe the form (i.e., topography) and develop operational definitions of behavior.
- C.3. Distinguish among direct, indirect, and product measures of behavior.
- C.4. Develop and implement continuous measurement procedures (e.g., duration recording, event recording).
- C.5. Develop and implement discontinuous measurement procedures (e.g., interval recording, time sampling).
- C.6. Evaluate the validity and reliability of measurement procedures.
- C.7. Select a measurement system to obtain representative data given the dimensions of behavior and the logistics of observing and recording.
- C.8. Graph data to communicate relevant quantitative relations (e.g., equal-interval graphs, bar graphs, cumulative records).
- C.9. Interpret graphed data.
- C.10. Develop and evaluate mastery criteria.
D. Experimental Design (10 of 150 scored questions) (7%)
- D.1. Distinguish between dependent and independent variables.
- D.2. Distinguish between internal and external validity.
- D.3. Identify the defining features of single-case experimental designs (e.g., individuals serve as their own controls, repeated measures, prediction, verification, replication).
- D.4. Identify strengths of single-case experimental design.
- D.5. Distinguish among and implement single-case experimental designs (e.g., reversal, multiple baseline, multielement, changing criterion).
- D.6. Distinguish among and implement comparative, component, and parametric analyses.
E. Ethical and Professional Issues (18 of 150 scored questions) (12%)
- E.1. Identify and apply core principles underlying the ethics codes for BACB certificants (e.g., benefit others; treat others with compassion, dignity, and respect; behave with integrity).
- E.2. Identify the risks to oneself, others, and the profession associated with engaging in unethical behavior (e.g., misuse of social media, misrepresentation of one’s credential, making confidential information public).
- E.3. Identify one’s area(s) of competence and when to seek a supervisor’s guidance.
- E.4. Identify professional development activities that strengthen and expand areas of competence (e.g., attend conferences, read literature, seek consultation, establish mentors).
- E.5. Identify and comply with requirements for collecting, using, protecting, and disclosing confidential information.
- E.6. Identify steps that should be taken when transitioning clients or supervisees to another professional or when a BCaBA transitions to a different supervisor.
- E.7. Identify types of and risks associated with multiple relationships, and how to mitigate those risks when they are unavoidable.
- E.8. Identify and apply interpersonal and other skills (e.g., accepting feedback, listening actively, seeking input, collaborating) to establish and maintain professional relationships.
- E.9. Engage in cultural humility in service delivery and professional relationships.
- E.10. Apply culturally responsive and inclusive service and supervision activities.
- E.11. Identify and apply the legal, regulatory, and practice requirements (e.g., licensure, jurisprudence, funding, certification) relevant to the delivery of behavior-analytic services.
F. Behavior Assessment (17 of 150 scored questions) (11%)
- F.1. Review relevant information in available records and data (e.g., educational, medical, historical) at the outset of a case.
- F.2. Identify conditions that warrant behavior-analytic services.
- F.3. Identify and prioritize socially significant, client-informed, and culturally responsive behavior-change goals.
- F.4. Implement assessments of relevant skill strengths and deficits, and contextual fit (e.g., client values, cultural variables, social validity, environmental resources).
- F.5. Implement preference and reinforcer assessments.
- F.6. Implement functional assessments of behavior, including indirect, descriptive, and experimental analyses.
G. Behavior-Change Procedures (22 of 150 scored questions) (15%)
- G.1. Develop and implement positive and negative reinforcement procedures, including contingent and noncontingent applications.
- G.2. Develop and implement procedures to establish and use conditioned reinforcers.
- G.3. Develop and implement procedures that incorporate motivating operations and discriminative stimuli.
- G.4. Develop and implement procedures to teach simple and conditional discriminations.
- G.5. Develop and implement procedures using stimulus and response prompts that include appropriate fading procedures (e.g., errorless, least-to-most, stimulus fading).
- G.6. Develop and implement modeling procedures.
- G.7. Develop and implement procedures that use instructions and rules.
- G.8. Develop and implement shaping procedures.
- G.9. Develop and implement chaining procedures.
- G.10. Develop and implement procedures to teach elementary verbal operants.
- G.11. Develop and implement procedures to promote emergent relations and generative performance.
- G.12. Develop and implement procedures that promote behavioral persistence.
- G.13. Develop and implement acquisition procedures that are appropriate to the client’s skills and intervention goals (e.g., discrete-trial, free-operant, and naturalistic teaching arrangements).
- G.14. Develop and implement group contingency procedures.
- G.15. Develop and implement contingency contracting procedures.
- G.16. Develop and implement self-management procedures.
- G.17. Develop and implement procedures to promote stimulus and response generalization.
- G.18. Develop and implement differential reinforcement procedures with and without extinction.
- G.19. Define and implement positive and negative punishment procedures (e.g., time-out, response cost, overcorrection).
- G.20. Develop and implement procedures to promote maintenance of behavior change.
H. Intervention Development and Monitoring (20 of 150 scored questions) (13%)
- H.1. State intervention goals in observable and measurable terms.
- H.2. Identify potential interventions based on assessment results and scientific evidence.
- H.3. Develop intervention goals and procedures based on risks and contextual fit (e.g., client preferences and values, cultural variables, social validity, environmental resources).
- H.4. Identify alternative behaviors to be established or increased when a target behavior is to be decreased.
- H.5. Identify possible unwanted effects when using reinforcement, extinction, and punishment procedures.
- H.6. Evaluate client progress and procedural integrity.
- H.7. Make data-based decisions about the effectiveness of procedures and the need for modification.
- H.8. Collaborate with and include others who support and/or provide services to clients.
I. Supervisory Relationships (15 of 150 scored questions) (10%)
- I.1. Use behavior-analytic supervision practices and state the potential risks of ineffective supervision (e.g., poor client outcomes, impaired job satisfaction, employee turnover).
- I.2. Identify and apply strategies for establishing and maintaining effective supervisory relationships (e.g., active listening, providing reinforcement, reciprocal feedback).
- I.3. Identify and implement methods that promote equity in supervision practices.
- I.4. Establish clear performance expectations for the supervisor and supervisee.
- I.5. Select supervision goals based on an assessment of the supervisee’s skills.
- I.6. Apply empirically validated and competency-based approaches to train supervisees to perform assessment and intervention procedures.
- I.7. Identify and apply empirically validated and culturally responsive performance management procedures (e.g., modeling, practice, feedback, reinforcement, task clarification, manipulation of response effort).
- I.8. Apply a function-based approach (e.g., performance diagnostics) to assess and improve supervisee behavior.
- I.9. Evaluate the effects of supervision (e.g., on client outcomes, on supervisee repertoires).

Examination sources

BCaBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.)
p. 1, introduction
BCaBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.)
p. 1, domain allocation table
BACB 2027 BCaBA Requirements
Pathway 1, Examination
BACB Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Handbook
Examination Development
BACB Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Handbook
What to Expect When Taking Your Examination
BACB Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Handbook
Examination Results
BACB Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Handbook
Scoring Methodology
BACB Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Handbook
Examination Outline
BACB Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Handbook
Schedule Your Examination Appointment, p. 28
BACB Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Handbook
Fees table, p. 28
BACB Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst Handbook
Scheduling, Pearson VUE appointment fee

BCBA Certification Examination

Provider: Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB); delivered by Pearson VUE in person at authorized Pearson VUE testing sites
Format: Computer-based multiple-choice examination, continuously available and offered only in English; each question has 4 possible answers and only 1 correct answer; all questions are equally weighted and the result is based on overall performance
Exam questions: 185 multiple-choice questions: 175 scored and 10 unscored
Time limit: 4 hours
Passing score: Pass/fail; criterion-referenced passing score established by the modified Angoff method
Exam fee: $245 certification application (BACB) plus $125 examination appointment (Pearson VUE); $140 examination retake application

Examination outline

A. Behaviorism and Philosophical Foundations (8 of 175 scored questions) (5%)
- A.1. Identify the goals of behavior analysis as a science (i.e., description, prediction, control).
- A.2. Explain the philosophical assumptions underlying the science of behavior analysis (e.g., selectionism, determinism, empiricism, parsimony, pragmatism).
- A.3. Explain behavior from the perspective of radical behaviorism.
- A.4. Distinguish among behaviorism, the experimental analysis of behavior, applied behavior analysis, and professional practice guided by the science of behavior analysis.
- A.5. Identify and describe dimensions of applied behavior analysis.
B. Concepts and Principles (24 of 175 scored questions) (14%)
- B.1. Identify and distinguish among behavior, response, and response class.
- B.2. Identify and distinguish between stimulus and stimulus class.
- B.3. Identify and distinguish between respondent and operant conditioning.
- B.4. Identify and distinguish between positive and negative reinforcement contingencies.
- B.5. Identify and distinguish between positive and negative punishment contingencies.
- B.6. Identify and distinguish between automatic and socially mediated contingencies.
- B.7. Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized reinforcers.
- B.8. Identify and distinguish among unconditioned, conditioned, and generalized punishers.
- B.9. Identify and distinguish among simple schedules of reinforcement.
- B.10. Identify and distinguish among concurrent, multiple, mixed, and chained schedules of reinforcement.
- B.11. Identify and distinguish between operant and respondent extinction as operations and processes.
- B.12. Identify examples of stimulus control.
- B.13. Identify examples of stimulus discrimination.
- B.14. Identify and distinguish between stimulus and response generalization.
- B.15. Identify examples of response maintenance.
- B.16. Identify examples of motivating operations.
- B.17. Distinguish between motivating operations and stimulus control.
- B.18. Identify and distinguish between rule-governed and contingency-shaped behavior.
- B.19. Identify and distinguish among verbal operants.
- B.20. Identify the role of multiple control in verbal behavior.
- B.21. Identify examples of processes that promote emergent relations and generative performance.
- B.22. Identify ways behavioral momentum can be used to understand response persistence.
- B.23. Identify ways the matching law can be used to interpret response allocation.
- B.24. Identify and distinguish between imitation and observational learning.
C. Measurement, Data Display, and Interpretation (21 of 175 scored questions) (12%)
- C.1. Create operational definitions of behavior.
- C.2. Distinguish among direct, indirect, and product measures of behavior.
- C.3. Measure occurrence.
- C.4. Measure temporal dimensions of behavior (e.g., duration, latency, interresponse time).
- C.5. Distinguish between continuous and discontinuous measurement procedures.
- C.6. Design and apply discontinuous measurement procedures (e.g., interval recording, time sampling).
- C.7. Measure efficiency (e.g., trials to criterion, cost-benefit analysis, training duration).
- C.8. Evaluate the validity and reliability of measurement procedures.
- C.9. Select a measurement procedure to obtain representative data that accounts for the critical dimension of the behavior and environmental constraints.
- C.10. Graph data to communicate relevant quantitative relations (e.g., equal-interval graphs, bar graphs, cumulative records).
- C.11. Interpret graphed data.
- C.12. Select a measurement procedure to obtain representative procedural integrity data that accounts for relevant dimensions (e.g., accuracy, dosage) and environmental constraints.
D. Experimental Design (13 of 175 scored questions) (7%)
- D.1. Distinguish between dependent and independent variables.
- D.2. Distinguish between internal and external validity.
- D.3. Identify threats to internal validity (e.g., history, maturation).
- D.4. Identify the defining features of single-case experimental designs (e.g., individuals serve as their own controls, repeated measures, prediction, verification, replication).
- D.5. Identify the relative strengths of single-case experimental designs and group designs.
- D.6. Critique and interpret data from single-case experimental designs.
- D.7. Distinguish among reversal, multiple-baseline, multielement, and changing-criterion designs.
- D.8. Identify rationales for conducting comparative, component, and parametric analyses.
- D.9. Apply single-case experimental designs.
E. Ethical and Professional Issues (22 of 175 scored questions) (13%)
- E.1. Identify and apply core principles underlying the ethics codes for BACB certificants (e.g., benefit others; treat others with compassion, dignity, and respect; behave with integrity).
- E.2. Identify the risks to oneself, others, and the profession as a result of engaging in unethical behavior.
- E.3. Develop and maintain competence by engaging in professional development activities (e.g., read literature, seek consultation, establish mentors).
- E.4. Identify and comply with requirements for collecting, using, protecting, and disclosing confidential information.
- E.5. Identify and comply with requirements for making public statements about professional activities (e.g., social media activity; misrepresentation of professional credentials, behavior analysis, and service outcomes).
- E.6. Identify the conditions under which services or supervision should be discontinued and apply steps that should be taken when transitioning clients and supervisees to another professional.
- E.7. Identify types of and risks associated with multiple relationships, and how to mitigate those risks when they are unavoidable.
- E.8. Identify and apply interpersonal and other skills (e.g., accepting feedback, listening actively, seeking input, collaborating) to establish and maintain professional relationships.
- E.9. Engage in cultural humility in service delivery and professional relationships.
- E.10. Apply culturally responsive and inclusive service and supervision activities.
- E.11. Identify personal biases and how they might interfere with professional activity.
- E.12. Identify and apply the legal, regulatory, and practice requirements (e.g., licensure, jurisprudence, funding, certification) relevant to the delivery of behavior-analytic services.
F. Behavior Assessment (23 of 175 scored questions) (13%)
- F.1. Identify relevant sources of information in records (e.g., educational, medical, historical) at the outset of the case.
- F.2. Identify and integrate relevant cultural variables in the assessment process.
- F.3. Design and evaluate assessments of relevant skill strengths and areas of need.
- F.4. Design and evaluate preference assessments.
- F.5. Design and evaluate descriptive assessments.
- F.6. Design and evaluate functional analyses.
- F.7. Interpret assessment data to determine the need for behavior-analytic services and/or referral to others.
- F.8. Interpret assessment data to identify and prioritize socially significant, client-informed, and culturally responsive behavior-change procedures and goals.
G. Behavior-Change Procedures (25 of 175 scored questions) (14%)
- G.1. Design and evaluate positive and negative reinforcement procedures.
- G.2. Design and evaluate differential reinforcement (e.g., DRA, DRO, DRL, DRH) procedures with and without extinction.
- G.3. Design and evaluate time-based reinforcement (e.g., fixed-time) schedules.
- G.4. Identify procedures to establish and use conditioned reinforcers (e.g., token economies).
- G.5. Incorporate motivating operations and discriminative stimuli into behavior-change procedures.
- G.6. Design and evaluate procedures to produce simple and conditional discriminations.
- G.7. Select and evaluate stimulus and response prompting procedures (e.g., errorless, most-to-least, least-to-most).
- G.8. Design and implement procedures to fade stimulus and response prompts (e.g., prompt delay, stimulus fading).
- G.9. Design and evaluate modeling procedures.
- G.10. Design and evaluate instructions and rules.
- G.11. Shape dimensions of behavior.
- G.12. Select and implement chaining procedures.
- G.13. Design and evaluate trial-based and free-operant procedures.
- G.14. Design and evaluate group contingencies.
- G.15. Design and evaluate procedures to promote stimulus and response generalization.
- G.16. Design and evaluate procedures to maintain desired behavior change following intervention (e.g., schedule thinning, transferring to naturally occurring reinforcers).
- G.17. Design and evaluate positive and negative punishment (e.g., time-out, response cost, overcorrection).
- G.18. Evaluate emotional and elicited effects of behavior-change procedures.
- G.19. Design and evaluate procedures to promote emergent relations and generative performance.
H. Selecting and Implementing Interventions (20 of 175 scored questions) (11%)
- H.1. Develop intervention goals in observable and measurable terms.
- H.2. Identify and recommend interventions based on assessment results, scientific evidence, client preferences, and contextual fit (e.g., expertise required for implementation, cultural variables, environmental resources).
- H.3. Select socially valid alternative behavior to be established or increased when a target behavior is to be decreased.
- H.4. Plan for and attempt to mitigate possible unwanted effects when using reinforcement, extinction, and punishment procedures.
- H.5. Plan for and attempt to mitigate possible relapse of the target behavior.
- H.6. Make data-based decisions about procedural integrity.
- H.7. Make data-based decisions about the effectiveness of the intervention and the need for modification.
- H.8. Collaborate with others to support and enhance client services.
I. Personnel Supervision and Management (19 of 175 scored questions) (11%)
- I.1. Identify the benefits of using behavior-analytic supervision (e.g., improved client outcomes, improved staff performance and retention).
- I.2. Identify and apply strategies for establishing effective supervisory relationships (e.g., executing supervisor-supervisee contracts, establishing clear expectations, giving and accepting feedback).
- I.3. Identify and implement methods that promote equity in supervision practices.
- I.4. Select supervision goals based on an assessment of the supervisee’s skills, cultural variables, and the environment.
- I.5. Identify and apply empirically validated and culturally responsive performance management procedures (e.g., modeling, practice, feedback, reinforcement, task clarification, manipulation of response effort).
- I.6. Apply a function-based approach (e.g., performance diagnostics) to assess and improve supervisee behavior.
- I.7. Make data-based decisions about the efficacy of supervisory practices.

Examination sources

BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.)
p. 1, introduction
BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.)
p. 1, domain allocation table rows A-B
BCBA Test Content Outline (6th ed.)
p. 1, domain allocation table rows C-I
BACB 2027 BCBA Requirements
Pathway 1, Examination
BACB Board Certified Behavior Analyst Handbook
Examination Development, p. 32
BACB Board Certified Behavior Analyst Handbook
What to Expect When Taking Your Examination, p. 36
BACB Board Certified Behavior Analyst Handbook
Examination Results, p. 39
BACB Board Certified Behavior Analyst Handbook
Scoring Methodology, p. 39
BACB Board Certified Behavior Analyst Handbook
Examination Outline, p. 32
BACB Board Certified Behavior Analyst Handbook
Schedule Your Examination Appointment, p. 31
BACB Board Certified Behavior Analyst Handbook
Fees table, p. 31
BACB Board Certified Behavior Analyst Handbook
Scheduling, p. 34