Section 337.605

Title XXII OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS

Chapter 337

Effective - 28 Aug 2025, see footnote   

  337.605.  Criminal background check, fingerprint submission. — 1.  The state committee for social workers may require that fingerprint submissions be made as part of an application seeking a license or a temporary permit to practice as a licensed clinical social worker, licensed advanced macro social worker, licensed master social worker, and licensed baccalaureate social worker, as such terms are defined in section 337.600 and as provided in section 337.621.

  2.  If the state committee for social workers requires that fingerprint submissions be made as part of such application, the state committee for social workers shall require applicants to submit the fingerprints to the Missouri state highway patrol for the purpose of conducting a state and federal fingerprint-based criminal history background check.

  3.  The fingerprints and any required fees shall be sent to the Missouri state highway patrol's central repository.  The fingerprints shall be used for searching the state criminal records repository and shall also be forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a federal criminal records search under section 43.540.  The Missouri state highway patrol shall notify the state committee for social workers of any criminal history record information or lack of criminal history record information discovered on the individual.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 610.120 to the contrary, all records related to any criminal history information discovered shall be accessible and available to the state committee for social workers.

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(L. 2025 S.B. 71 merged with S.B. 81 & 174)