New Mexico Register / Volume XXXVI, Issue 19 / October 7, 2025

 

 

TITLE 16            OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING

CHAPTER 63    SOCIAL WORKERS

PART 8                FEES

 

16.63.8.1              ISSUING AGENCY:  Regulation and Licensing Department, Board of Social Work Examiners, P.O Box 25101, Santa Fe, NM 87504.

[16.63.8.1 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.1 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.2              SCOPE:  All baccalaureate social workers, masters social workers, clinical social workers, and independent social workers.

[16.63.8.2 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.2 NMAC,  10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.3              STATUTORY AUTHORITY:  These parts are promulgated to the Social Work Practice Act, Sections 61-31-1 to 25 NMSA 1978.

[16.63.8.3 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.3 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.4              DURATION:  Permanent

[16.63.8.4 NMAC – Rp, 16.63.8.4 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.5              EFFECTIVE DATE:  October 07, 2025, unless a different date is cited at the end of a section.

[16.63.8.5 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.5 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.6              OBJECTIVE:  To outline fees for examinations, application, renewal, late penalty fee, duplicate license, retired, and administrative fees.

[16.63.8.6 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.6 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.7              DEFINITIONS:  [RESERVED]

 

16.63.8.8              EXAMINATIONS:  The Board does not charge a fee for examinations.  The cost of examinations by ASWB for any level of licensure is determined and collected by ASWB.

[16.63.8.8 NMAC – Rp.,16.63.8.8 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.9              INITIAL LICENSURE BACCALAUREATE:  The fee for applications as a baccalaureate social worker is seventy-five dollars ($75.00), to be submitted with the application.

[16.63.8.9 NMAC – Rp.,16.63.8.9 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.10            INITIAL LICENSURE MASTER:  The fee for application as a master social worker in one hundred dollars ($100.00), to be submitted with the application.

[16.63.8.10 NMAC – Rp.,16.63.8.9 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.11            INITIAL LICENSURE INDEPENDENT OR CLINICAL:  The fee for application as an independent social worker is one hundred twenty-five ($125.00), to be submitted with the application.

[16.63.8.11 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.11 NMAC 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.12            PROVISIONAL LICENSE:  For a provisional license, the fee is commensurate for each license level as stated in this part.

[16.63.8.12 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.12 NMAC 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.13            RENEWAL BACCALAUREATE:  For renewal of license as a baccalaureate social worker, on hundred dollars ($100.00).

[16.63.8.13 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.13 NMAC,10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.14            RENEWAL MASTERS:  For renewal of a license as a master social worker, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00).

[16.63.8.14 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.14 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.15            RENEWAL INDEPENDENT:  For renewal of a license as an independent social worker, two hundred dollars ($200.00).

[16.63.8.15 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.15 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.16            LATE PENALTY FEE:  License renewal deadline is July 1.  Penalty fee for late renewal license is seventy-five dollars ($75.00).

[16.63.8.16 NMAC – Rp.,16.63.8.16 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.17            DUPLICATE LICENSE:  The fee for a duplicate license is twenty-five ($25.00).  The fee for a duplicate pocket card is five dollars ($5.00).  The fee for a duplicate renewal certificate is five dollars ($5.00).

[16.63.8.17 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.17 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.18            APPLICATION RETIRED:  The application fee for retired social worker is one half the regular fee.

[16.63.8.18 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.18 NMAC 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.19            [RESERVED]

[16.63.8.19 NMAC – Repealed, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.20            REASONABLE ADMINISTRATIVE FEES

[16.63.8.20 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.20 NMAC,10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.21            ALL FEES ARE NON REFUNDABLE

[16.63.8.21 NMAC – Rp., 16.63.8.21 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

16.63.8.22            INSUFFICIENT FUNDS:  Any returned check or electronic payment will be subject to a thirty-five ($35.00) fee.

[16.63.8.22 NMAC – N, 16.63.8.22 NMAC, 10/07/2025]

 

HISTORY OF 16.63.8 NMAC:

Pre-NMAC History: The material in this part was derived from that previously file with the commission of Public Records-State Records Center and Archives:

 

Rule 10, Fees, 12/1/89.

Rule 10, Fees, 8/13/90.

Rule 8, Fees, 4/15/91.

Rule 8, Fees, 5/22/92.

 

History of Repealed Material:

16.63.8 NMAC, Fees, filed 06/22/1992, was repealed and replaced with 16.63.8 NMAC, Fees, effective 10/07/2025.