Florida SB 74: COVID-19-related Claims Against Health Care Providers

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Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact 
2025-09-24T06:37:14Z 
Creating the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; specifying requirements for state participation in the compact; requiring member states to designate the categories of social work licensure which are eligible for issuance of a multistate license in such states; providing for the renewal of multistate licenses; specifying the consequences and parameters of practice for a licensee whose multistate license or multistate authorization to practice is encumbered, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 74 

 By Senator Harrell 

 31-00218-26 202674__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to the Social Work Licensure 
 3 Interstate Compact; creating s. 491.022, F.S.; 
 4 creating the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; 
 5 providing a purpose and objectives of the compact; 
 6 defining terms; specifying requirements for state 
 7 participation in the compact; specifying requirements 
 8 for member states to maintain membership in the 
 9 compact; requiring member states to designate the 
 10 categories of social work licensure which are eligible 
 11 for issuance of a multistate license in such states; 
 12 specifying criteria licensed social workers must meet 
 13 to be issued a multistate license under the compact; 
 14 providing additional requirements based on the 
 15 licensure category of such social workers; providing 
 16 for the renewal of multistate licenses; specifying 
 17 that a licensed social worker’s services provided in a 
 18 remote state are subject to that remote member state’s 
 19 regulatory authority; authorizing remote states to act 
 20 on a licensee’s multistate authorization to practice; 
 21 specifying the consequences and parameters of practice 
 22 for a licensee whose multistate license or multistate 
 23 authorization to practice is encumbered; specifying 
 24 procedures for issuing multistate licenses; providing 
 25 for the recognition of multistate licenses in all 
 26 member states; providing construction; specifying that 
 27 a licensed social worker may hold a home state license 
 28 in only one member state at a time; specifying 
 29 requirements and procedures for reissuing a multistate 
 30 license by a new home state; providing construction; 
 31 authorizing active duty military personnel or their 
 32 spouses to keep their home state designation during 
 33 active duty; authorizing member states to take adverse 
 34 action against a licensee’s multistate authorization 
 35 to practice and to issue subpoenas for hearings and 
 36 investigations under certain circumstances; providing 
 37 requirements and procedures for such adverse actions 
 38 and subpoenas; authorizing member states to recover 
 39 costs of investigations and depositions from the 
 40 affected licensed social workers in adverse actions; 
 41 authorizing member states to engage in joint 
 42 investigations under certain circumstances; providing 
 43 that a licensee’s multistate authorization to practice 
 44 must be deactivated in all member states for the 
 45 duration of an encumbrance imposed by the licensee’s 
 46 home state; providing for notice to the data system 
 47 and the licensee’s home state of any adverse action 
 48 taken against a licensee; providing construction; 
 49 establishing the Social Work Licensure Compact 
 50 Commission; providing for membership, meetings, and 
 51 powers of the commission; providing for powers, 
 52 duties, membership, and meetings of the commission’s 
 53 executive committee; requiring the commission to adopt 
 54 annual reports and provide them to member states; 
 55 providing public notice and records requirements for 
 56 meetings of the commission; authorizing the commission 
 57 to hold closed, nonpublic meetings under certain 
 58 circumstances; providing for the financing of the 
 59 commission; providing commission members, officers, 
 60 executive directors, employees, and representatives 
 61 immunity from civil liability under certain 
 62 circumstances; providing construction; requiring the 
 63 commission to defend the commission’s members, 
 64 officers, executive directors, employees, and 
 65 representatives in civil actions under certain 
 66 circumstances; providing construction; requiring the 
 67 commission to indemnify and hold harmless such 
 68 individuals for any settlement or judgment obtained in 
 69 such actions under certain circumstances; providing 
 70 construction; providing for the development of the 
 71 data system, reporting procedures, and the exchange of 
 72 specified information between member states; requiring 
 73 member states to report any adverse action taken 
 74 against a licensee and monitor the data system for 
 75 adverse action taken against a licensee in other 
 76 member states; authorizing member states to designate 
 77 as confidential information provi