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2025-2026 Bill 3633 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 12, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3633

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ENACTING THE 
"SOCIAL WORK INTERSTATE COMPACT ACT" BY ADDING ARTICLE 3 TO CHAPTER 63, TITLE 
40 SO AS TO PROVIDE THE PURPOSE, FUNCTIONS, OPERATIONS, AND DEFINITIONS CONCERNING 
THE COMPACT; AND TO DESIGNATE THE EXISTING PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 63, TITLE 40 
AS ARTICLE 1, ENTITLED "GENERAL PROVISIONS."

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the "Social Work Interstate Compact Act."

SECTION 2. Chapter 63, Title 40 of the S.C. Code is amended by 
adding:

Article 3

Social Work Interstate Compact

 Section 
40-63-510. (A) The purpose of this 
compact is to facilitate interstate practice of regulated social workers by 
improving public access to competent social work services. The compact 
preserves the regulatory authority of the State to protect public health and 
safety through the current system of state licensure.

 (B) 
This compact is designed to achieve the following objectives:

 (1) 
increase public access to social work services;

 (2) 
reduce overly burdensome and duplicative requirements associated with holding 
multiple licenses;

 (3) 
enhance the member states' ability to protect the public's health and safety;

 (4) 
encourage the cooperation of member states in regulating multistate practice;

 (5) 
promote mobility and address workforce shortages by eliminating the necessity 
for licenses in multiple states by providing the mutual recognition of other 
member states licenses;

 (6) 
support military families;

 (7) 
facilitate the exchange of licensure and disciplinary information among member 
states;

 (8) 
authorize all member states to hold a regulated social worker accountable for 
abiding by the member state's laws, regulations, and applicable standards in 
the member state in which the client is located at the time care is rendered; 
and

 (9) 
allow for the use of telehealth to facilitate increased access to regulated 
social work services.

 Section 
40-63-520. As used in this compact, and except as 
otherwise provided, the following definitions shall apply:

 (1) 
"Active military member" means any individual in full-time duty status in the 
active Armed Forces of the United States including members of the National 
Guard and Reserve.

 (2) 
"Adverse action" means any administrative, civil, equitable or criminal action 
permitted by a state's laws which is imposed by a licensing authority or other 
authority against a regulated social worker, including actions against an 
individual's license or multistate authorization to practice such as 
revocation, suspension, probation, monitoring of the license, limitation on the 
licensee's practice, or any other encumbrance on licensure affecting a 
regulated social worker's authority to practice, including issuance of a cease 
and desist action.

 (3) 
"Alternative program" means a nondisciplinary monitoring or practice 
remediation process approved by a licensing authority to address practitioners 
with an impairment.

 (4) 
"Charter member states" means member states who have enacted legislation to 
adopt this compact where such legislation predates the effective date of this 
compact as defined in Section 40-63-640.

 (5) 
"Compact commission" or "commission" means the government agency whose 
membership consists of all states that have enacted this compact, which is 
known as the social work licensure compact commission, as defined in Section 
40-63-600, and which shall operate as an instrumentality of the member states.

 (6) 
"Current significant investigative information" means:

 (a) 
investigative information that a licensing authority, after a preliminary 
inquiry that includes notification and an opportunity for the regulated social 
worker to respond has reason to believe is groundless and, if proved true, 
would indicate more than a minor infraction as may be defined by the 
commission; or

 (b) 
investigative information that indicates that the regulated social worker 
represents an immediate threat to public health and safety, as may be defined 
by the commission, regardless of whether the regulated social worker has been 
notified and has had an opportunity to respond.

 (7) 
"Data system" means a repository of information about licensees including, but 
not limited to, continuing education, examination, licensure, current 
significant investigative information, disqualifying event, multistate 
license(s) and adverse action information or other information as required by 
the commission.

 (8) 
"Domicile" means the jurisdiction in which the licensee resides and intends to 
remain indefinitely.