Amendment ASA1-AB217

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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE

ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 217

June 11, 2015 - Offered by Representative T. Larson.

AB217-ASA1,1,2 An Act to amend 457.08 (4) (c) (intro.) of the statutes; relating to: practice requirement for licensure as a clinical social worker.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the social worker section of the Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, and Social Work Examining Board must grant a clinical social worker license to an individual who, among other things, has engaged in the equivalent of at least 3,000 hours of supervised clinical social work practice, including at least 1,000 hours of face-to-face client contact. Under this substitute amendment, that 1,000 hours of face-to-face client contact must include the diagnosis and treatment of individuals based on a standard diagnostic protocol approved by the board for a number of hours determined by the board.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

AB217-ASA1,1 Section 1. 457.08 (4) (c) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB217-ASA1,2,6 457.08 (4) (c) (intro.) Submits evidence satisfactory to the social worker section that after receiving a master's or doctorate degree in social work he or she has engaged in the equivalent of at least 3,000 hours of clinical social work practice supervised by one of the following, including at least 1,000 hours of face-to-face client contact, supervised by one of the following that shall include a number of hours, as determined by the examining board, of diagnosis and treatment of individuals based on a standard diagnostic protocol approved by the examining board:

AB217-ASA1,2,7 (End)