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Kansas social work advisory committee seeks to reverse change to clinical-hour language; formal action tabled
Summary
Members debated rescinding an amendment that altered the 1,500-hour clinical requirement for clinical social work licensure, voted informally to pursue reversal, but the committee deferred final action after losing quorum and agreed to continue discussion at the next meeting.
The Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board (BSRB) Social Work Advisory Committee debated whether to rescind an amendment that changed the statutory wording for clinical social work licensure hours, and took a preliminary vote to pursue reversing the change. The committee did not complete formal action because it lost quorum and agreed to return the item to the next meeting.
The discussion centered on a 2025 amendment to the clinical licensure language that inserted the phrase "including but not limited to conducting psychotherapy and assessment" into the clause describing the required 1,500 hours of direct client contact within a 3,000-hour postgraduate supervised experience. Committee…
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