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Committee gives favorable report to bill removing exam requirement for bachelor’s and master’s social work licensure
Summary
The Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee voted to give House Bill 1521 a favorable report, removing the national exam requirement for bachelor’s- and master’s-level social work licensure while keeping the exam for clinical licenses and adding two consumer members to the State Board of Social Work Examiners.
The Health and Government Operations Committee on Monday gave a favorable report to House Bill 1521, a measure that would repeal the requirement that applicants for licensure as a bachelor’s social worker or a master’s social worker pass a national examination as a condition of receiving a Maryland license. The committee also approved increasing the State Board of Social Work Examiners’ membership from 12 to 14 by adding two consumer members.
The bill drew most of its discussion from Vice Chair Collison, who summarized the work group’s yearlong review of pathways to licensure and urged the committee to move the measure forward. “This test is a test of memory … it is not a clinical test at all,” Collison said, arguing the national exam duplicates what graduates already demonstrate through…
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