Tex. Occ. Code § 505.302 · Subchapter F. SPECIALTY AREAS OF SOCIAL WORK
REGULATION OF SPECIALTY AREAS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In establishing a specialty area of social work, the executive council shall:
(1) define the scope of the specialty;
(2) establish qualifications for specialty area practitioners that describe, in accordance with Subdivision (1), the scope of the specialty area;
(3) adopt rules of conduct to ensure strict compliance with and enforcement of this chapter; and
(4) adopt rules for the suspension or revocation of an order of recognition of specialty.
(b) A person who is not recognized as satisfying the qualifications for a specialty area may not practice in the specialty area.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 768 (H.B. 1501), Sec. 2.091, eff. September 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.505.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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