HF 3081 - Social Work Licensing and Regulations Summary

• Creates new license types including temporary leave license status, emeritus inactive license status, and emeritus active license status for social workers taking breaks or retiring from practice.

• Adds licensure by endorsement pathways for licensed social workers, graduate social workers, and independent social workers who hold active licenses in other jurisdictions, with reduced supervision requirements based on prior practice hours.

• Revises continuing education requirements to 40 hours per two-year renewal term with specific mandates for ethics training and clinical content, and allows up to half the hours through independent learning activities.

• Establishes new temporary license procedures for students, recent graduates from candidacy-status programs, and persons currently licensed in other jurisdictions, with clear supervision and practice scope requirements.

• Consolidates and streamlines various regulatory provisions including board composition requirements, application procedures, and continuing education provider approval processes; repeals obsolete statutory sections.