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MS HB670
Bill
Status
3/4/2025
Primary Sponsor
Sam Creekmore
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AI Summary
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Enacts the Social Work Licensure Compact, allowing Mississippi to join other states in recognizing multistate licenses for social workers in clinical, master's, and bachelor's categories.
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Establishes the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission to oversee the compact, with one delegate per member state and an executive committee of up to eleven members.
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Creates a multistate authorization to practice allowing licensed social workers to provide services across member states while adhering to laws in the state where the client is located.
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Requires multistate license applicants to pass qualifying national exams, undergo criminal history background checks, maintain an unencumbered home state license, and report adverse actions within thirty days.
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Amends Mississippi Code sections 73-53-7, 73-53-13, and 73-53-29 to recognize multistate licenses and authorizations under the compact.
Legislative Description
Social Work Licensure Compact; create.
Last Action
Died In Committee
3/4/2025