Provides additional time for certain persons to file an application with the department of education to be licensed as a social worker or clinical social worker; requires such persons to have possessed all the requirements for such applications by September 1, 2004.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2848
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 4, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to persons authorized to
practice social work
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 4 of section 7707 of the education law,
2 subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 230 of the laws of 2004 and subdivi-
3 sion 4 as added by chapter 420 of the laws of 2002, are amended to read
4 as follows:
5 2. Any person who possesses a master's of social work degree on [the
6 effective date of this section] September first, two thousand four, who
7 has five years of post-graduate social work employment by September
8 first, two thousand four and meets the requirements for a license pursu-
9 ant to this article, except for examination, and who files with the
10 department [within one year of the effective date of this section] by
11 December thirty-first, two thousand ten shall be licensed as a licensed
12 master social worker.
13 4. Any person who is licensed as a certified social worker on [the
14 effective date of this section] September first, two thousand four, but
15 who has not received authorization pursuant to section three thousand
16 two hundred twenty-one or four thousand three hundred three of the
17 insurance law, who files with the department [within one year of the
18 effective date of this section] by December thirty-first, two thousand
19 ten an application pursuant to subdivision two of section seventy-seven
20 hundred four of this article, and who demonstrates by September first,
21 two thousand four to the satisfaction of the department that they meet
22 the experience requirements for authorization pursuant to section three
23 thousand two hundred twenty-one or four thousand three hundred three of
24 the insurance law, shall be licensed as a licensed clinical social work-
25 er without meeting any further requirements.
26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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