HB 1231 — An Act amending the act of July 9, 1987 (P.L.220, No.39), known as the Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors Act, further providing for State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors.

PRINTER'S NO.    1447

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 1231
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, HILL-EVANS, SANCHEZ, VENKAT,
        GIRAL, RABB, WAXMAN, MAYES, OTTEN, HOHENSTEIN, RIVERA AND
        BOYD, APRIL 22, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, APRIL 22, 2025


                                    AN ACT
 1   Amending the act of July 9, 1987 (P.L.220, No.39), entitled "An
 2      act licensing and regulating the practice of social work;
 3      providing penalties; and making an appropriation," further
 4      providing for State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and
 5      Family Therapists and Professional Counselors.
 6      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 7   hereby enacts as follows:
 8      Section 1.    Section 5(a) of the act of July 9, 1987 (P.L.220,
 9   No.39), known as the Social Workers, Marriage and Family
10   Therapists and Professional Counselors Act, is amended to read:
11   Section 5.   State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family
12                    Therapists and Professional Counselors.
13      (a)   Creation.--There is hereby created the State Board of
14   Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional
15   Counselors, a departmental administrative board in the
16   Department of State. The board shall consist of 13 members [who
17   are citizens of the United States and] who have been residents
18   of this Commonwealth for a two-year period, two of whom shall be
19   public members; five of whom shall be licensed social workers,
 1   at least one of whom shall be a licensed clinical social worker
 2   and at least one of whom shall be a licensed social worker; two
 3   of whom shall be licensed marriage and family therapists; two of
 4   whom shall be licensed professional counselors; one of whom
 5   shall be either a licensed marriage and family therapist or a
 6   licensed professional counselor whose membership shall rotate
 7   between those professions at the expiration of the member's
 8   second term; and one of whom shall be the Commissioner of
 9   Professional and Occupational Affairs.
10      * * *
11      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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