No. SB 74
Filed under Healthcare.
Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; Creating the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; specifying requirements for state participation in the compact; requiring member states to designate the categories of social work licensure which are eligible for issuance of a multistate license in such states; providing for the renewal of multistate licenses; specifying the consequences and parameters of practice for a licensee whose multistate license or multistate authorization to practice is encumbered, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDCreates the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact, letting a social worker with an unencumbered license in one member state get a multistate license to practice in every other member state, once seven states join and Florida's board and licensees meet compact requirements.
Applicants must submit fingerprints for an FBI and state background check, and if their license is ever restricted at home, their right to practice in every other member state is automatically switched off until it's lifted.
A new multistate commission, funded by fees on member states and licensees, writes rules that automatically become law in Florida; only a court challenge or a majority vote of every member legislature within four years can undo one.
Florida's compact delegate and the commission's staff count as state agents when sued over compact work, and the commission -- not the individual -- pays any resulting claim or judgment.
AIA social worker with an unencumbered license in a home member state can get a multistate license letting them practice in every other member state, once Florida and six other states have joined the compact.
AIAnyone applying for a multistate license must submit fingerprints or other biometric data so the home state can pull a full FBI and state criminal history report before granting the license.
AIIf a social worker's multistate license is restricted, suspended, or revoked by the home state, the authorization to practice in every other member state switches off automatically until the encumbrance is cleared.
AIRules adopted by the new multistate commission automatically bind Florida and every other member state as law, without going through the state's own rulemaking process before taking effect.
AIA remote state may discipline a social worker's authorization to practice within its own borders, but only the home state that issued the multistate license can revoke or suspend the underlying license itself.
AIFlorida's compact delegate and the commission's officers and staff count as state agents when sued over compact work, and the commission covers any resulting claim or judgment rather than the individual.
AIA clinical social worker licensed in another compact state who holds a multistate license can practice in Florida without going through the state's usual licensure-by-examination or licensure-by-endorsement process.