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Kansas adviser outlines timeline, data and fee questions for social-work multistate compact
Summary
BSRB staff reported the social work multistate compact has been enacted in roughly 30 states; Kansas’s compact commissioner said implementation could take about a year and highlighted unresolved items including the shared data system, funding model and jurisprudence verification.
David Fye, Kansas’s compact commissioner for the social work multistate compact, briefed the advisory committee on Aug. 12 about the compact commission’s work and implementation timeline.
Fye said about 30 states have enacted the social work compact and the compact commission has begun committee work on rules, finance and operations. He told the committee the estimated timeline for the compact to go live is roughly one year, with outstanding implementation tasks including selection of a shared data system to track multistate license holders, decisions about financing or participant fees, and identification of acceptable national examinations for multistate eligibility.
Fye noted that the compact requires background checks as part of participation and that the BSRB is working with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) on logistics; the KBI fee was described as approximately $57 and would be passed through to applicants. He also flagged unresolved questions about how disciplinary findings will be represented in compact databases and how jurisprudence requirements for individual states will be managed for multistate license holders.
Committee members asked whether disciplinary actions in a holder’s home state or a remote state would restrict multistate privileges; Fye said discipline processes differ by jurisdiction and he would seek clarifying details from the compact commission. He also said some compact rules (for example, which national exam counts for certain levels) are currently out for comment and that the compact commission’s rule-comment deadlines and meeting schedule are posted on swcompact.org.
The committee did not take a formal vote on compact implementation items but asked staff to bring back clarifications on discipline reporting, jurisprudence verification, and timelines before system selection.
