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MS HB670

Bill

Status

Failed

3/4/2025

Primary Sponsor

Sam Creekmore

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Public Health and Welfare2/17/2025
Public Health and Human Services1/15/2025

Full Bill Text

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