Despite my Maryland colleagues desire to scuttle this Va bill, i am in full support of it. when i attended a CACREP school in Va. (JMU in mid 80's) it was in the midst of the licensing efforts in Va. I continued with my studies and reveived the 60 hours necessary for licensure. however, i moved to and worked in Maryland where i had to wait 10 years before Maryland offered a professional license. and even then folks were grandfathered in with less than the Va requirement of 60 hours. my understanding is that maryland still does not offer a 60 hour master or a post master such as an Ed.S. Heck, even Maryland social workers had to go get a "-C" to bring them in line with other national clinical LCSW's.

PS. does anyone beleive that social workers