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North CarolinaHB 2312025-2026 SessionHouseWALLET
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND ENTER INTO AN INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR THE PRACTICE OF SOCIAL WORK.
Sponsored By: Hugh Blackwell (Republican), MD Grant L. Campbell (Republican), Larry W. Potts (Republican), MD Timothy Reeder (Republican)
Signed by Governor
COMPACTSEMPLOYMENTINTERSTATE COOPERATIONLICENSING & CERTIFICATIONOCCUPATIONSPRESENTEDPUBLICRATIFIEDSOCIAL SERVICESSOCIAL WORKERSCHAPTERED
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Bill Overview
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4 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 4 mixed.
Getting a multistate social work license
Beginning October 1, 2025, you must hold an active, unencumbered home‑state license to get a multistate license. You must pay any home‑state multistate fee and submit fingerprints for FBI criminal‑history checks. Clinical applicants need at least an MSW and 3,000 supervised hours or two years full‑time, plus a clinical exam or an approved equivalent. Master’s and bachelor’s applicants need an accredited degree and a national exam or an approved equivalent. States may choose which license levels (BSW, MSW, clinical) they offer for multistate issuance. You must report any adverse action to your home state within 30 days, keep competence up, and follow the Compact’s defined terms like home state and remote state.
Practice across states with one license
The law creates an interstate social work compact. With a home‑state multistate license, you can practice in all member states, including by telehealth. When you work in another member state, you must follow that state’s laws and scope of practice. Remote states can investigate and limit your authorization; your home state controls your multistate license. If your license is encumbered, your multistate authorization turns off in other states until it is cleared. States keep their own single‑state licensing rules unless those rules conflict with the Compact.
How the Compact starts and is run
Beginning October 1, 2025, a new Social Work Licensure Compact Commission runs the Compact, makes rules, and keeps records. The Commission operates a central data system with license, adverse‑action, and investigation data; each applicant gets a unique ID, and states must report and expunge data as required. The Commission can enforce the Compact, offer mediation, and, after notice and a vote, suspend or terminate a defaulting state. The Compact takes effect on the date the seventh state enacts it. A state may withdraw by repeal, but licenses stay recognized for at least six months after notice. Member states must meet standards: license key levels, require accredited education and supervised clinical hours, run complaint systems, use fingerprint checks and national exams, join the data system, follow Commission rules, and name a delegate.
Moving or military? Keep your license
Beginning October 1, 2025, if you move your home state to another Compact state, you must apply right away to reissue your multistate license, pay any fees, and notify your old state. Your old multistate license is deactivated until the new state reissues it, and the new state may require new criminal checks or a short state‑law step. If you do not qualify, you must follow that state’s single‑state license rules. Active‑duty service members and spouses may pick and keep a home state for the full period of active duty.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Hugh Blackwell
Republican • House
MD Grant L. Campbell
Republican • House
Larry W. Potts
Republican • House
MD Timothy Reeder
Republican • House
Cosponsors
William D. Brisson
Republican • House
Maria Cervania
Democratic • House
Sarah Crawford
Democratic • House
Jr. Ted Davis
Republican • House
Jimmy Dixon
Republican • House
Brian Echevarria
Republican • House
Brent Jackson
Republican • Senate
Pricey Harrison
Democratic • House
B. Ray Jeffers
Democratic • House
Donny Lambeth
Republican • House
Donnie Loftis
Republican • House
Marcia Morey
Democratic • House
Renée A. Price
Democratic • House
Heather H. Rhyne
Republican • House
Diane Wheatley
Republican • House
Donna McDowell White
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/11/2025
HB 231: Social Work Interstate Licensure Compact.
Yes: 44 • No: 0 • Other: 6
House vote • 4/1/2025
HB 231: Social Work Interstate Licensure Compact.
Yes: 116 • No: 0 • Other: 4
Actions Timeline
Ch. SL 2025-7
6/13/2025HouseSigned by Gov. 6/13/2025
6/13/2025HousePres. To Gov. 6/12/2025
6/12/2025HouseRatified
6/12/2025HouseOrdered Enrolled
6/11/2025SenatePassed 3rd Reading
6/11/2025SenatePassed 2nd Reading
6/11/2025SenateReptd Fav
6/10/2025SenateRe-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
6/3/2025SenateReptd Fav
6/3/2025SenateRe-ref Com On Finance
5/21/2025SenateReptd Fav
5/21/2025SenateRe-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate
5/19/2025SenateWithdrawn From Com
5/19/2025SenateRef To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
4/3/2025SenatePassed 1st Reading
4/3/2025SenateRegular Message Received From House
4/3/2025SenateRegular Message Sent To Senate
4/2/2025HousePassed 3rd Reading
4/1/2025HousePassed 2nd Reading
4/1/2025HousePlaced On Cal For 04/01/2025
3/31/2025HouseCal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
3/31/2025HouseReptd Fav
3/31/2025HouseRe-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
3/25/2025HouseReptd Fav
3/25/2025House
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