HB 5927 Summary

• Creates a social work reinvestment advisory committee within the Michigan Department of Health, composed of representatives from the licensing board, social work academic programs, health departments, professional associations, and licensed social workers.

• Director of the department must appoint committee members within 60 days of the bill's effective date, ensuring the composition reflects the gender and racial diversity of Michigan's social work profession at bachelor's and master's levels.

• Committee must review and make recommendations on workforce needs for bachelor's and master's level social workers, workforce demographics, service opportunities across aging, child welfare, criminal justice, mental health, and substance use disorder services, and compensation issues affecting job satisfaction.

• Committee must submit findings and recommendations to the department and relevant legislative committees within 18 months of the bill's effective date; the committee is abolished after submitting its report.

• Committee members serve without compensation but are entitled to reimbursement for official expenses, meetings are public and subject to Michigan's open meetings act and freedom of information act.