Bill Text: TX HB1797 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a person's eligibility to obtain a license in social work and to an exemption from the licensing requirement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB1797 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB1797-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1797 | ||
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| relating to a person's eligibility to obtain a license in social | ||
| work and to an exemption from the licensing requirement. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 505.003, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
| (c) A person who teaches social work at an institution of | ||
| higher education or a private or independent institution of higher | ||
| education as those terms are defined by Section 61.003, Education | ||
| Code, is not required to hold a license under this chapter to the | ||
| extent the person confines the person's activities to teaching and | ||
| does not otherwise engage in the practice of social work. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 505.353(b), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) An applicant may take the licensing examination | ||
| conducted by the board under Section 505.354 for: | ||
| (1) a master social worker license if the applicant | ||
| possesses a doctoral or master's degree in social work from a | ||
| graduate program that is accredited by or is in candidacy for | ||
| accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education; | ||
| (2) a baccalaureate social worker license if the | ||
| applicant possesses a baccalaureate degree in social work from an | ||
| educational program that is accredited by or is in candidacy for | ||
| accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education; or | ||
| (3) a clinical social worker license if the applicant | ||
| possesses a doctoral or master's degree in social work from an | ||
| accredited graduate program approved by the board and meets the | ||
| qualifications for clinical social work practice as determined by | ||
| the board under this chapter. | ||
| SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act to Section | ||
| 505.353, Occupations Code, apply to a license for which an | ||
| application is filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
| license application filed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the application was filed, | ||
| and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1797 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 11, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 2, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 1797 on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1797 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
