Allows a person with a master's of social work degree who meets certain requirements to file to be licensed within one year after the effective date of this act.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7169
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 23, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. RICHARDSON, TAYLOR, WILLIAMS, REYES, J. RIVERA --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, DE LA ROSA -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the practice of
licensed social workers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 7707 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 230 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. Any person who possesses a master's of social work degree on the
5 effective date of this section, who has five years of post-graduate
6 social work employment and meets the requirements for a license pursuant
7 to this article, except for examination, and who files with the depart-
8 ment within one year [of] after the effective date of [this section] the
9 chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-one which amended this subdi-
10 vision, shall be licensed as a licensed master social worker.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04747-01-1
