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17-103-306. Qualifications — Issuance.
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17-103-306. Qualifications — Issuance.
(a)(1) The Arkansas Social Work Licensing Board shall issue a Licensed Social Worker license to an applicant who qualifies as follows:
(A) Has a baccalaureate degree in a social work program from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education or the Canadian Association for Social Work Education, or has received before June 17, 1986, a baccalaureate degree in a social work program from an accredited educational institution;
(B) Has passed an examination approved by the board for this purpose and level of practice;
(C) Has applied for a criminal background check and meets the qualifications for issuance of a license under § 17-103-307;
(D) [Repealed.]
(E) Is physically and mentally competent to provide social work services with reasonable skill and safety;
(F) Is not affected by a mental or physical disease or condition that would impair the applicant's competency to provide social work services;
(G) Has not pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to or been found guilty of a felony listed under § 17-3-102 or criminal offense involving violence, dishonesty, fraud, deceit, breach of client trust, or abuse of the vulnerable;
(H) Does not use drugs or alcohol to an extent that the use affects the applicant's professional competency; and
(I) Has not engaged in fraud or deceit in making the application.
(2)(A) The board shall issue a Provisional Licensed Social Worker license one (1) time only to an applicant who qualifies under this subsection.
(B) A Provisional Licensed Social Worker license is good for one (1) year and up to three (3) attempts to pass the examination approved by the board for this purpose and level of practice.
(b)(1) The board shall issue a Licensed Master Social Worker license to an
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-103-306
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17-103-306. Qualifications — Issuance.
(a)(1) The Arkansas Social Work Licensing Board shall issue a Licensed Social Worker license to an applicant who qualifies as follows:
(A) Has a baccalaureate degree in a social work program from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education or the Canadian Association for Social Work Education, or has received before June 17, 1986, a baccalaureate degree in a social work program from an accredited educational institution;
(B) Has passed an examination approved by the board for this purpose and level of practice;
(C) Has applied for a criminal background check and meets the qualifications for issuance of a license under § 17-103-307;
(D) [Repealed.]
(E) Is physically and mentally competent to provide social work services with reasonable skill and safety;
(F) Is not affected by a mental or physical disease or condition that would impair the applicant's competency to provide social work services;
(G) Has not pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to or been found guilty of a felony listed under § 17-3-102 or criminal offense involving violence, dishonesty, fraud, deceit, breach of client trust, or abuse of the vulnerable;
(H) Does not use drugs or alcohol to an extent that the use affects the applicant's professional competency; and
(I) Has not engaged in fraud or deceit in making the application.
(2)(A) The board shall issue a Provisional Licensed Social Worker license one (1) time only to an applicant who qualifies under this subsection.
(B) A Provisional Licensed Social Worker license is good for one (1) year and up to three (3) attempts to pass the examination approved by the board for this purpose and level of practice.
(b)(1) The board shall issue a Licensed Master Social Worker license to an applicant who qualifies as follows:
(A) Has a master's degree in social work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education or the Canadian Association for Social Work Education, or has received before June 17, 1986, a master's degree in a social work program from an accredited educational institution;
(B) Has passed an examination approved by the board for this purpose and level of practice;
(C) Has applied for a criminal background check and meets the qualifications for issuance of a license under § 17-103-307;
(D) Has good moral character;
(E) Is physically and mentally competent to provide social work services with reasonable skill and safety;
(F) Is not afflicted by a mental or physical disease or condition that would impair the applicant's competency to provide social work services;
(G) Has not pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to or been found guilty of a felony listed under § 17-3-102 or criminal offense involving violence, dishonesty, fraud, deceit, breach of client trust, or abuse of the vulnerable;
(H) Does not use drugs or alcohol to an extent that the use affects the applicant's professional competency; and
(I) Has not engaged in fraud or deceit in making the application.
(2)(A) The board shall issue a Provisional Licensed Master Social Worker license one (1) time only to an applicant who qualifies under this subsection.
(B) A Provisional Licensed Master Social Worker license is good for one (1) year and up to three (3) attempts to pass the examination approved by the board for this purpose and level of practice.
(c)(1) The board shall issue a license as a Licensed Certified Social Worker to an applicant who qualifies as follows:
(A) Has a master's degree in social work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education or the Canadian Association for Social Work Education, or has received before June 17, 1986, a master's degree in a social work program from an accredited educational institution;
(B)(i) Has at least twenty-four (24) months of supervised social work experience under a licensed certified social worker.
(ii) The supervised social work experience required under subdivision (c)(1)(B)(i) of this section shall include at least four thousand (4,000) hours in a social work position under the supervision of a licensed certified social worker or a social worker whom the board determines to have qualifications equivalent to those required of a licensed certified social worker;
(C) Has passed an examination approved by the board for this purpose and level of practice;
(D) Has applied for a criminal background check and meets the qualifications for issuance of a license under § 17-103-307;
(E) Has good moral character;
(F) Is physically and mentally competent to provide social work services with reasonable skill and safety;
(G) Is not affected by a mental or physical disease or condition that would impair the applicant's competency to provide social work services;
(H) Has not pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to or been found guilty of a felony listed under § 17-3-102 or criminal offense involving violence, dishonesty, fraud, deceit, breach of client trust, or abuse of the vulnerable;
(I) Does not use drugs or alcohol to an extent that the use affects the applicant's professional competency; and
(J) Has not engaged in fraud or deceit in making the application.
(2)(A) The board shall issue a Provisional Licensed Master Social Worker license one (1) time only to an applicant who qualifies under this subsection.
(B) A Provisional Licensed Master Social Worker license is good for one (1) year and up to three (3) attempts to pass the examination approved by the board for this purpose and level of practice.
(C) A Provisional Licensed Certified Social Worker license is not available.
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17-103-307. Criminal background checks.
(a) Each applicant for a license issued by the Arkansas Social Work Licensing Board is required to apply for a state and national criminal background check, to be conducted by the Division of Arkansas State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(b) The criminal background check shall conform to the applicable federal standards and shall include the taking of fingerprints.
(c) The applicant shall sign a release of information to the board and shall be responsible for the payment of any fee associated with the criminal background check.
(d) Upon completion of the criminal background check, the Identification Bureau of the Division of Arkansas State Police shall forward to the board all releasable information obtained concerning the applicant.
(e) For purposes of this section, the board shall follow the licensing restrictions based on criminal records under § 17-3-102.
(f)(1) Information received by the board from the Identification Bureau of the Division of Arkansas State Police under this section shall not be available for examination except by the affected applicant for licensure or his or her authorized representative or the person whose license is subject to revocation or his or her authorized representative.
(2) No record, file, or document shall be removed from the custody of the division.
(g) Information made available to the affected applicant for licensure or the person whose license is subject to revocation shall be information pertaining to that person only.
(h) Rights of privilege and confidentiality established in this section do not extend to any document created for purposes other than the criminal background check.
(i) The board shall adopt the necessary rules to fully implement the prov
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-103-307
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17-3-102. Licensing restrictions based on criminal records.
(a) An individual is not eligible to receive or hold a license issued by a licensing entity if that individual has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to or been found guilty of any of the following offenses by any court in the State of Arkansas or of any similar offense by a court in another state or of any similar offense by a federal court, unless the conviction was lawfully sealed under the Comprehensive Criminal Record Sealing Act of 2013, § 16-90-1401 et seq., or otherwise previously sealed, pardoned or expunged under prior law:
(1) Capital murder as prohibited in § 5-10-101;
(2) Murder in the first degree and second degree as prohibited in §§ 5-10-102 and 5-10-103;
(3) Manslaughter as prohibited in § 5-10-104;
(4) Negligent homicide as prohibited in § 5-10-105;
(5) Kidnapping as prohibited in § 5-11-102;
(6) False imprisonment in the first degree as prohibited in § 5-11-103;
(7) Permanent detention or restraint as prohibited in § 5-11-106;
(8) Robbery as prohibited in § 5-12-102;
(9) Aggravated robbery as prohibited in § 5-12-103;
(10) Battery in the first degree as prohibited in § 5-13-201;
(11) Aggravated assault as prohibited in § 5-13-204;
(12) Introduction of a controlled substance into the body of another person as prohibited in § 5-13-210;
(13) Aggravated assault upon a law enforcement officer or an employee of a correctional facility as prohibited in § 5-13-211, if a Class Y felony;
(14) Terroristic threatening in the first degree as prohibited in § 5-13-301;
(15) Rape as prohibited in § 5-14-103;
(16) Sexual indecency with a child as prohibited in § 5-14-110;
(17) Sexual extortion as prohibited in § 5-14-113;
(18) Sexual assault in the first degree, second deg
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-3-102
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 17-3-102. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.