Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -

• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 1
  Declaration of public policy. The purpose of this Act is to protect and to benefit the public by setting standards of qualifications, education, training...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 2
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. (Source: P.A. 85-1131; 86-1475.)
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 3
  Definitions: The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: 1. "Department" means...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 4
  Exemptions. 1. This Act does not prohibit any of the following: (a) Any persons legally regulated in this State under any other Act from...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 5
  Powers and duties of the Department. 1. The Department shall exercise the powers and duties as set forth in this Act. 2. The Secretary shall...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 6
  Social Work Examining and Disciplinary Board. (1) The Secretary shall appoint a Social Work Examining and Disciplinary Board consisting of 9 persons who shall serve...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 7
  Applications for original license. Applications for original licenses shall be made to the Department on forms prescribed by the Department and accompanied by the...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 7.3
  Change of address. An applicant or licensee must inform the Department of any change of address, and such changes must be made either through the...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 7.5
  Social Security Number on license application. In addition to any other information required to be contained in the application, every application for an original license...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 8
  Examination. (1) The Department shall authorize examinations of applicants at such times and places as it may determine. Each examination shall be of a...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 8.1
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-1007. Repealed by P.A. 90-150, eff. 12-30-97.)
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 9
  Qualification for clinical social worker license. A person shall be qualified to be licensed as a clinical social worker and the Department shall issue a...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 9A
  Qualifications for license as licensed social worker. A person shall be qualified to be licensed as a licensed social worker and the Department shall...
• Illinois Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -
  (Source: P.A. 92-254, eff. 1-1-02. Repealed internally, eff. 1-1-05.)
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 9.5
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 92-254, eff. 1-1-02. Repealed internally, eff. 1-1-05.)
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 10
  License restrictions and limitations. (a) No person shall, without a license as a social worker issued by the Department: (i) in any manner hold...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 10.5
  Unlicensed practice; violation; civil penalty. (a) Any person who practices, offers to practice, attempts to practice, or holds himself or herself out to practice as...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 11
  Licenses; renewal; restoration; person in military service; inactive status. (a) The expiration date and renewal period for each license issued under this Act shall be...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 12
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 85-1440. Repealed by P.A. 90-150, eff. 12-30-97.)
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 12.5
  Endorsement. The Department may issue a license as a clinical social worker or as a social worker, without the required examination, to an applicant licensed...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 13
  Fees. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the fees for the administration and enforcement of this Act, including but not limited to fees...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 13.1
  Deposit of fees and fines. All of the fees and fines collected under this Act shall be deposited into the General Professions Dedicated Fund....
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 14
  Checks or order to Department dishonored because of insufficient funds. Any person who delivers a check or other payment to the Department that is returned...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 15
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-615. Repealed by P.A. 90-150, eff. 12-30-97.)
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 16
  Privileged Communications and Exceptions. 1. No licensed clinical social worker or licensed social worker shall disclose any information acquired from persons consulting the social worker...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 17
  Advertising. (A) Persons licensed under this Act may advertise the availability of their professional services as permitted by law, provided that such advertising is...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 18
  Practice by Corporations. No license shall be issued by the Department to any corporation which has a stated purpose that includes or which practices...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 19
  Grounds for disciplinary action. (1) The Department may refuse to issue, refuse to renew, suspend, or revoke any license, or may place on probation, censure,...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 19.5
  Suspension of license for failure to pay restitution. The Department, without further process or hearing, shall suspend the license or other authorization to practice of...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 20
  Violations - Injunction - Cease and desist order. 1. If any person violates the provisions of this Act, the Secretary may, in the name of...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 21
  Investigations; notice and hearing. The Department may investigate the actions of any applicant or of any person holding or claiming to hold a license. The...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 22
  Record of Proceedings; transcript. The Department, at its expense, shall preserve a record of all proceedings at the formal hearing of any case involving...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 23
  Subpoenas - Depositions - Oaths. The Department shall have the power to subpoena and to bring before it any person and to take testimony either...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 24
  Compelling Testimony. Any court, upon application of the Department, designated hearing officer or the applicant or licensee against whom proceedings under Section 19 of this...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 25
  Findings and recommendations. At the conclusion of the hearing the Board shall present to the Secretary a written report of its findings of fact, conclusions...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 26
  Board - Rehearing. In any case involving the refusal to issue or to renew a license or to discipline a licensee, a copy of the...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 27
  Rehearing. Whenever the Secretary believes justice has not been done in the revocation, suspension, or discipline of a license or refusal to issue or renew...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 28
  Appointment of a hearing officer. The Secretary shall have the authority to appoint any attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois to...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 29
  Order or certified copy thereof - prima facie proof. An order or a certified copy thereof, over the seal of the Department and purporting to...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 30
  Restoration of suspended or revoked license. At any time after the suspension or revocation of any license, the Department may restore it to the...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 31
  Surrender of license. Upon the revocation and suspension of the license, the licensee shall immediately surrender his or her license to the Department. If...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 32
  Temporary suspension of a license. The Secretary may temporarily suspend the license of a licensed clinical social worker or licensed social worker without a hearing...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 33
  Administrative review - venue. 1. All final administrative decisions of the Department are subject to judicial review pursuant to the Administrative Review Law and...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 34
  Certification of record; costs. The Department shall not be required to certify any record to the court, to file an answer in court or...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 35
  Violations. Unless as otherwise specified, any person found to have violated any provision of this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. On...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 36
  Administrative Procedure Act. The Illinois Administrative Procedure Act is hereby expressly adopted and incorporated herein as if all of the provisions of that Act...
• Illinois Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. - 225 ILCS 20, Section 37
  Public policy. It is declared to be the public policy of this State, pursuant to paragraphs (h) and (i) of Section 6 of Article...

Last modified: February 18, 2015