ILCS » Chapter 225 · Act 20
Illinois Compiled Statutes

225 ILCS 20/9 (2026)

Qualifications for clinical social worker license

✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section IL-ILGAilga.gov JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar
(225 ILCS 20/9) (from Ch. 111, par. 6359)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
    Sec. 9. Qualifications for clinical social worker license. A person shall be qualified to be licensed as a clinical social worker if that person:
        (1) has applied in writing on the prescribed form;
        (2) has not engaged in conduct or actions that would
    
constitute grounds for discipline under this Act;
        (3)(a) demonstrates to the satisfaction of the
    
Department that subsequent to securing a master's degree in social work from an approved program the applicant has successfully completed at least 3,000 hours of satisfactory, supervised clinical professional experience; or
        (b) demonstrates to the satisfaction of the
    
Department that such applicant has received a doctor's degree in social work from an approved program and has completed at least 2,000 hours of satisfactory, supervised clinical professional experience subsequent to the degree;
        (4) has passed the examination for the practice of
    
clinical social work as authorized by the Department or has completed the examination alternative set forth in Section 8.2; and
        (5) has paid the required fees.
(Source: P.A. 103-433, eff. 1-1-24; 104-178, eff. 1-1-26.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1995–1995 · leading case: Jaffee v. Redmond, 51 F.3d 1346 (7th Cir. 1995).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Jaffee v. Redmond, 51 F.3d 1346 (7th Cir. 1995). “225 ILCS 20/9 (1994). Karen Beyer, the Director of Health and Human Services for the Village, received her master's degree in social work from Loyola University in 1969.”
Jaffee v. Redmond, 51 F.3d 1346 (7th Cir. 1995). “225 ILCS 20/9 (1994). Karen Beyer, the Director of Health and Human Services for the Village, received her master’s degree in social work from Loyola University in 1969.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.