Maryland HB1119 regulates the scope of practice for social workers, ensuring high professional standards and ethical, accountable, and qualified.

Maryland HB1119 aims to maintain high professional standards for social work practice across various areas, including clinical, community, organizational, administrative, and policy-oriented fields. The bill ensures ethical, accountable, and qualified practice by requiring social workers to be prepared, licensed, and engaged in ongoing professional development. It outlines specific scopes of practice for different categories of licensed social workers, such as licensed bachelor social workers, licensed master social workers, and licensed certified social workers.

Maryland HB1119 regulates the scope of practice for social workers, ensuring high professional standards and ethical, accountable, and qualified.

Maryland HB1119 aims to maintain high professional standards for social work practice across various areas, including clinical, community, organizational, administrative, and policy-oriented fields. The bill ensures ethical, accountable, and qualified practice by requiring social workers to be prepared, licensed, and engaged in ongoing professional development. It outlines specific scopes of practice for different categories of licensed social workers, such as licensed bachelor social workers, licensed master social workers, and licensed certified social workers.