New Mexico Register / Volume XXXVI,
Issue 19 / October 7, 2025
TITLE 16 OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
LICENSING
CHAPTER 63 SOCIAL WORKERS
PART 14 INACTIVE STATUS
16.63.14.1 ISSUING AGENCY: Regulation and Licensing Department, Board of
Social Work Examiners, P.O Box 25101, Santa Fe, NM 87504.
[16.63.14.1 NMAC –
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16.63.14.2 SCOPE: All baccalaureate social workers, masters
social workers, clinical social worker, and independent social workers.
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16.63.14.3 STATUTORY AUTHORITY: These parts are promulgated pursuant to the
Social Work Practice Act, Sections 61-31-1 to 25 NMSA 1978.
[16.63.14.3 NMAC –
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16.63.14.4 DURATION: Permanent
[16.63.14.4 NMAC –
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16.63.14.5 EFFECTIVE DATE: October 07, 2025, unless different date is
cited at the end of a section.
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16.63.14.6 OBJECTIVE: To inform the licensee of the procedure to
change their license to inactive status, and the reinstatement process.
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16.63.14.7 DEFINITIONS: [RESERVED]
16.63.14.8 PROCEDURE
A. Any person licensed under the Social Work Practice Act
(Sections 61-31-1 to 61-31-24 NMSA 1978) who wishes to assume inactive status
in the practice of social work shall notify the board’s administrator in
writing postmarked on or before July 1st of the year the license expires. As part of the written request for inactive
status, the licensee must show proof of having completed the required
continuing education hours defined in 16.63.12 NMAC for the current year. If the licensee has not met the continuing
education requirements, inactive status may be granted but the licensee will be
subject to all rules related to continuing education if reinstatement of
license is requested.
B. The practice of social work in New Mexico under an
inactive license is strictly prohibited.
C. Any person licensed under the Social Work Practice Act who
has assumed inactive status as provided in this section,
may notify the board in writing, of his desire to
resume active practice.
D. Upon receipt of the notice required in Subsection D of
16.63.14.8 NMAC, the administrator shall send to the licensee an application
for reinstatement of license.
E. The fee for reinstatement of a license shall be in
accordance with 16.63.8 NMAC.
F. The applicant must, in addition, provide satisfactory
proof of:
(1) completion of no less than 10 hours of
continuing education for each year of inactive status; such continuing
education to be accumulated in accordance with 16.63.12 NMAC
(2) completion of all continuing education
requirements determined to have been unmet at the time inactive status was
granted.
G. If the board finds the application in order and is
satisfied that the applicant has fulfilled his continuing education
requirements as outlined in Subsection G of 16.63.14.8 NMAC, the board shall
reinstate the applicant’s license.
H. No person licensed under the Social Work Practice Act who
has assumed inactive status shall reactive his practice until he receives
notification from the board that his license is active.
I. The board will not accept applications for inactive
status from licensees who are under investigation for violations of the Social
Work Practice Act or who have an active complaints pending with the board.
J. The board will accept applications under this section
from any social worker who is impaired as defined in the Impaired Health Care Provider
Act, 61-7-1 et seq. NMSA 1978, and who is participating in a rehabilitation
plan approved by the board.
K. The board may, in its discretion, require that an
applicant for reinstatement take and pass a written or oral examination as
prescribed by the board.
[16.63.14.8 NMAC –
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HISTORY OF
16.63.14 NMAC:
Pre-NMAC History: The material in
this part was derived from that previously filed with the Commission of Public
Records-State Records Center and Archives:
Rule 14, Inactive
Status, 5/22/92.
Rule 14, Inactive
Status, 12/5/94.
History of
Repealed Material:
16.63.14 NMAC, Inactive
Status, filed 1/5/1995, was repealed and replaced with 16.63.14 NMAC, Inactive
Status, effective 10/07/2025.