FL H0027

Creates the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact (s. 491.022, F.S.), allowing licensed clinical, master's, and bachelor's-level social workers to practice across member states through a multistate license without obtaining separate licenses in each state, effective July 1, 2025.

Establishes the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission as a joint government agency of member states, with each state appointing one delegate; the commission has authority to adopt binding rules, maintain a coordinated data system for licensee information, and levy annual assessments on member states and fees on licensees.

Requires multistate license applicants to hold an active, unencumbered home state license, pass a qualifying national exam (or meet equivalency standards), submit fingerprints for criminal background checks, and meet education requirements from accredited programs corresponding to their licensure category.

Authorizes remote states to take adverse action against a social worker's multistate authorization to practice within that state, while only the home state may act against the multistate license itself; encumbrance of a multistate license deactivates practice authority in all member states until conditions are satisfied.

Requires the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling to appoint a state delegate to the commission, and amends multiple Florida statutes (ss. 456.073, 456.076, 491.004, 491.005, 491.006, 491.009, 768.28) to integrate compact provisions into existing disciplinary, licensure, impaired practitioner, and sovereign immunity frameworks.