H.F. No. 3963 Summary

• Removes requirements that provisional license applicants be born in a foreign country and communicate English as a second language, making provisional licenses available to all applicants meeting other criteria.

• Changes supervision requirements from 25 hours one-on-one in-person and 12.5 hours flexible supervision to half of total required supervision hours as one-on-one in-person and half as flexible types.

• Allows supervision via eye-to-eye electronic media while maintaining visual contact in addition to in-person supervision, and limits group supervision to no more than six supervisees.

• Permits supervisors to meet requirements through either 5,000 hours of authorized social work practice experience or completion of 30 hours of supervision training.

• Renumbers sections 148D.061, 148D.062, and 148D.063 to 148E.0551, 148E.116, and 148E.126 respectively, with corresponding cross-reference updates throughout statutes and rules.