The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
002
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SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE COMPACT
(Cite as: 26 V.S.A. § 3215)
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§ 3215. Purpose
(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 states 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 for the mutual recognition of other member
state 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 a member state’s laws, regulations, and applicable professional 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. (Added 2023, No. 91 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. April 23, 2024.)