{
  "_schema": {
    "about": "Social work licensing requirements per US jurisdiction, for the FIRST credential an MSW graduate holds in that jurisdiction.",
    "nullRule": "null means we have not read that figure off the board's own page. It never means zero. Do not substitute a default, an average or another state's number.",
    "attribution": "Social Work Test Prep Academy is not affiliated with any state licensing board or with ASWB. We read each board's published pages and record what they say; the board's page is the source of record. Requirements change.",
    "fields": {
      "abbr": "Two-letter USPS code, uppercase.",
      "name": "Jurisdiction name.",
      "url": "Absolute URL of the human-readable page.",
      "json": "Absolute URL of the full record for this jurisdiction.",
      "checked": "true when we have read this board's own pages and published the record. false means no data yet, not \"no requirements\".",
      "firstCredential": "The first credential an MSW graduate holds here (abbreviation, title, and the ASWB exam category needed to hold it: \"none\" when it is issued without one, null when an exam applies but no board rule names its level, or when the sources disagree on whether one applies).",
      "examRequiredFirst": "true when the ASWB exam gates that first credential. false when the jurisdiction licenses or registers you first and the exam comes later (Michigan, California, Florida, Illinois). null when there is no yes-or-no ASWB answer; examOrderReason says why.",
      "examOrderReason": "Why examRequiredFirst is null (null when it is true or false). \"applicant\": the rule turns on the applicant (Connecticut's degree-date cutoff, Minnesota's provisional route, Colorado's jurisprudence exam). \"provider_unconfirmed\": an exam comes first but the rule names only one approved by the board, not ASWB (Louisiana). \"unchecked\": we have not read the board, or the first rung (Nebraska PCMSW). \"sources_conflict\": the primary sources disagree on whether the exam applies, so neither reading is stated (no jurisdiction today). The per-state JSON `summary` states the rule.",
      "knownFeesUsd": "Sum of ONLY the fixed fees the board publishes for that first credential, in US dollars. null when it publishes none. A level-dependent ASWB exam fee (a fee line with amount_by_level) is never in it; it is charged in addition.",
      "hours": "Plain-language supervised-hour requirement on the path, or the not-checked sentence.",
      "lastChecked": "ISO date WE last read the board pages behind this record. It is not a board review, approval or sign-off.",
      "compactMember": "true when the jurisdiction has enacted the Social Work Licensure Compact. null when not checked.",
      "compactStatus": "Social Work Licensure Compact status: \"enacted\", \"pending_legislation\" or \"no_active_legislation\", with the page it was read from and the ISO date checked. null when not checked.",
      "compactLicenses": "Whether multistate compact licenses are being issued anywhere yet, with the compact's own statement quoted and the ISO date checked.",
      "ladder": "Every rung of the licensure ladder in order. `exam` is the ASWB category required to HOLD that rung (\"none\" = no ASWB exam; null = an exam applies but no board rule names its level); `supervised` means practice only under supervision. Optional: `examChoice` (\"board\" | \"applicant\") says who picks from a multi-level `exam`; `checked: false` marks a rung we have not read a record for (not checked yet, never another license's steps); `examProvider: \"unconfirmed\"` marks a rule that names only an exam approved by the board, so ASWB is not asserted.",
      "fees": "The board's own fee lines for the first credential, each with the page it was read from. amount_usd is null when the board does not publish the amount (counted in unknownFeeCount), or when conflict is true: the sources state different amounts, so neither is used (counted in conflictFeeCount, never in knownFeesUsd). A line with amount_by_level is an ASWB exam fee that depends on the level, kept out of knownFeesUsd.",
      "aswbExam": "The exam for the first credential: level (null when no rule names it) and fee. provider \"unconfirmed\" when the rule names only an exam approved by the board, not ASWB. null when the credential is issued without an exam or its rung is not checked yet.",
      "supervision": "The supervised-experience package on the path, each figure with its own source page. A figure the board does not publish is null, and so is one with conflict: true, where the sources state different figures and neither is used (the hours line says it is not confirmed).",
      "applicationSequence": "The board's published order of operations, in the board's own terms.",
      "sources": "The board and statute pages this record was read from.",
      "records": "The raw rulebook records for this jurisdiction, unmodified.",
      "dataProblems": "Every field we could not state plainly, one entry per field: `credential` is the record it belongs to, `path` the field inside that record, `kind` why (unchecked, unpublished, not_applicable, conflict, stale_source, no_single_total), `note` the specifics, `sources` what each source says, verbatim, `askTheBoard` the question to put to the board (or null), `checked` the ISO date we read them. Empty when there are none."
    }
  },
  "abbr": "CO",
  "name": "Colorado",
  "url": "https://www.socialworktestprepacademy.com/licensing/co",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "checked": true,
  "lastChecked": "2026-09-19",
  "board": {
    "name": "Colorado State Board of Social Work Examiners",
    "url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork"
  },
  "firstCredential": {
    "abbr": "LSW",
    "title": "Licensed Social Worker",
    "rung": "masters",
    "exam": "none"
  },
  "examRequiredFirst": null,
  "examOrderReason": "applicant",
  "summary": "Colorado: SB24-115 removed the ASWB Masters requirement and the board's own examination for the LSW, but the Colorado jurisprudence examination still comes before the license.",
  "aswbExam": null,
  "knownFeesUsd": null,
  "unknownFeeCount": 0,
  "conflictFeeCount": 0,
  "fees": [],
  "supervision": {
    "experience_hours": {
      "value": 3360,
      "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
    },
    "client_contact_hours": {
      "value": 1680,
      "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
    },
    "supervision_hours": {
      "value": 96,
      "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
    },
    "minimum_months": {
      "value": 24,
      "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
    },
    "maximum_months": null,
    "notes": [
      "No maximum-months figure is published in the rule text (contrast VA's 24-48 month window). The rule (SB24-115, Section 4) does cap the clinical social worker candidate REGISTRATION at 3 years, recently shortened from 4, unless the Board grants an extension. That is a registration-expiry rule and is not stated as a hard cap on completing the supervised hours themselves, so it stays a note rather than filling maximum_months.",
      "PENDING: Colorado HB26-1002 (proposed, per Board's 2026-09-19 homepage notice) would decrease the clinical hours required to become an LCSW; a public rulemaking hearing on revising Rule 1.14 is scheduled for November 13, 2026. Do not treat the above 3,360/1,680/96-hour figures as final if HB26-1002 has since passed.",
      "Fees: no Colorado DPO page publishing dollar amounts is reachable, so every fee on this record is null. Reading one would need a real browser inside the DPO Online Services portal.",
      "dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Applications serves a live 200 to a browser user agent and its text carries no dollar-amount fee figures, so the null fees are what the Board publishes rather than a failed fetch. dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Fees returns 404 and dpo.colorado.gov/mental-health-professions-fees returns 403. No official Colorado fee schedule with dollar figures is reachable. The prep-site figures that turn up in search ($70/$84 application, $18 jurisprudence, $260 ASWB) are not primary sources and are not used."
    ]
  },
  "hours": "3,360 hours, 1,680 client contact, 96 supervision, for the LCSW",
  "compactMember": true,
  "compactNote": null,
  "compactStatus": {
    "status": "enacted",
    "sourceUrl": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
    "checkedOn": "2026-09-19"
  },
  "compactLicenses": {
    "issued": false,
    "statement": "The Social Work Licensure Compact has been enacted in at least seven states and has reached activation status, however multistate licenses are not yet being issued. The implementation process for the compact will take 12 to 24 months before multistate licenses are able to issued.",
    "sourceUrl": "https://swcompact.org/",
    "checkedOn": "2026-10-18"
  },
  "applicationSequence": [
    "Obtain a CSWE-accredited master's or doctoral degree in social work.",
    "Submit application, transcripts, and fee to the Board.",
    "Pass the jurisprudence examination administered by the division; SB24-115 struck the separate examination in social work from C.R.S. 12-245-404(1)(c), effective 2024-08-07."
  ],
  "ladder": [
    {
      "rung": "masters",
      "abbr": "LSW",
      "title": "Licensed Social Worker",
      "exam": "none",
      "supervised": false,
      "source": "https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_115_signed.pdf"
    },
    {
      "rung": "supervisee",
      "abbr": "Clinical Social Worker Candidate",
      "title": "Registered candidate accruing LCSW hours",
      "exam": "none",
      "supervised": true,
      "source": "https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_115_signed.pdf"
    },
    {
      "rung": "clinical",
      "abbr": "LCSW",
      "title": "Licensed Clinical Social Worker",
      "exam": "Clinical",
      "supervised": false,
      "source": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Colorado State Board of Social Work Examiners · LSW applicant resources",
      "url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork"
    },
    {
      "label": "4 CCR 726-1 Social Work Examiners Rules and Regulations",
      "url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123"
    },
    {
      "label": "Senate Bill 24-115 (signed, as enacted)",
      "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_115_signed.pdf"
    },
    {
      "label": "ASWB · exam registration and fees",
      "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-115"
    },
    {
      "label": "Social Work Licensure Compact · member jurisdictions",
      "url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/"
    }
  ],
  "records": [
    {
      "state": {
        "name": "Colorado",
        "postal_code": "CO"
      },
      "license_target": {
        "track": "masters",
        "title": "Licensed Social Worker",
        "abbreviation": "LSW"
      },
      "board": {
        "name": "Colorado State Board of Social Work Examiners",
        "source_url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork"
      },
      "fees": [],
      "application_sequence": [
        "Obtain a CSWE-accredited master's or doctoral degree in social work.",
        "Submit application, transcripts, and fee to the Board.",
        "Pass the jurisprudence examination administered by the division; SB24-115 struck the separate examination in social work from C.R.S. 12-245-404(1)(c), effective 2024-08-07."
      ],
      "aswb_exam": {
        "level": null,
        "fee_usd": null,
        "source_url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb24-115",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
      },
      "supervision_requirement": {
        "experience_hours": null,
        "client_contact_hours": null,
        "supervision_hours": null,
        "minimum_months": null,
        "maximum_months": null,
        "notes": [
          "MAJOR ROAD CHANGE: SB24-115, effective 2024-08-07 (ninety days after adjournment), amended C.R.S. 12-245-404(1)(c) to strike 'an examination in social work as prescribed by the board and', so an LSW applicant now demonstrates 'legal and ethical competence by satisfactorily passing a jurisprudence examination administered by the division' and no ASWB exam (https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_115_signed.pdf).",
          "PENDING: the Board's homepage (dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork, checked 2026-09-19) is soliciting written stakeholder comments on proposed revisions to Rule 1.14 (Licensure by Examination) to implement HB26-1002, which would decrease the clinical hours required to become an LCSW. Public rulemaking hearing scheduled November 13, 2026. This is PENDING, not yet law or rule.",
          "Fees: no Colorado DPO page publishing dollar amounts is reachable. The application and exam pages route through a members-only 'DPO Online Services' portal, and dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Fees returns 404. All fees stay null rather than carrying a secondary-source figure.",
          "dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Applications serves a live 200 to a browser user agent and its text carries no dollar-amount fee figures, so the null fees are what the Board publishes rather than a failed fetch. dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Fees returns 404 and dpo.colorado.gov/mental-health-professions-fees returns 403. No official Colorado fee schedule with dollar figures is reachable. The prep-site figures that turn up in search ($70/$84 application, $18 jurisprudence, $260 ASWB) are not primary sources and are not used."
        ]
      },
      "supervisor_eligibility": null,
      "forms": [
        {
          "name": "Licensed Social Worker - Initial License by Examination, Endorsement or Telehealth Method",
          "source_url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Applications"
        },
        {
          "name": "Jurisprudence Examination Guide",
          "source_url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Applications"
        }
      ],
      "processing_benchmark": null,
      "endorsement_rules": null,
      "compact_status": {
        "member": true,
        "multistate_licenses_available": null,
        "source_url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
      },
      "last_verified": "2026-09-19",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "4 CCR 726-1 Social Work Examiners Rules and Regulations",
          "url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123"
        },
        {
          "label": "Senate Bill 24-115 (signed, as enacted)",
          "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_115_signed.pdf"
        },
        {
          "label": "Colorado Social Work Homepage (Board notices)",
          "url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "state": {
        "name": "Colorado",
        "postal_code": "CO"
      },
      "license_target": {
        "track": "clinical",
        "title": "Licensed Clinical Social Worker",
        "abbreviation": "LCSW"
      },
      "board": {
        "name": "Colorado State Board of Social Work Examiners",
        "source_url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork"
      },
      "fees": [],
      "application_sequence": [
        "Register as a clinical social worker candidate (pass Colorado jurisprudence examination).",
        "Complete at least 24 months of post-master's/post-doctoral supervised practice with at least 3,360 hours of applied social work practice, at least half (1,680) of which is clinical practice.",
        "Complete at least 96 hours of post-degree supervision (at least 48 in-person or telesupervision, individual).",
        "Pass the appropriate ASWB examination required for LCSW licensure.",
        "Submit the licensure application with supervisor-verified experience/supervision statement."
      ],
      "aswb_exam": {
        "level": "Clinical",
        "fee_usd": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
      },
      "supervision_requirement": {
        "experience_hours": {
          "value": 3360,
          "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
        },
        "client_contact_hours": {
          "value": 1680,
          "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
        },
        "supervision_hours": {
          "value": 96,
          "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
        },
        "minimum_months": {
          "value": 24,
          "source_url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
        },
        "maximum_months": null,
        "notes": [
          "No maximum-months figure is published in the rule text (contrast VA's 24-48 month window). The rule (SB24-115, Section 4) does cap the clinical social worker candidate REGISTRATION at 3 years, recently shortened from 4, unless the Board grants an extension. That is a registration-expiry rule and is not stated as a hard cap on completing the supervised hours themselves, so it stays a note rather than filling maximum_months.",
          "PENDING: Colorado HB26-1002 (proposed, per Board's 2026-09-19 homepage notice) would decrease the clinical hours required to become an LCSW; a public rulemaking hearing on revising Rule 1.14 is scheduled for November 13, 2026. Do not treat the above 3,360/1,680/96-hour figures as final if HB26-1002 has since passed.",
          "Fees: no Colorado DPO page publishing dollar amounts is reachable, so every fee on this record is null. Reading one would need a real browser inside the DPO Online Services portal.",
          "dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Applications serves a live 200 to a browser user agent and its text carries no dollar-amount fee figures, so the null fees are what the Board publishes rather than a failed fetch. dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Fees returns 404 and dpo.colorado.gov/mental-health-professions-fees returns 403. No official Colorado fee schedule with dollar figures is reachable. The prep-site figures that turn up in search ($70/$84 application, $18 jurisprudence, $260 ASWB) are not primary sources and are not used."
        ]
      },
      "supervisor_eligibility": [
        "Primary: a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) licensed by the Board in the jurisdiction where the applicant's services were performed.",
        "Alternative: a social worker licensed at the highest possible level in another jurisdiction where the applicant's services were performed, subject to Board review.",
        "Limited non-LCSW exception (e.g. overseas military personnel where telesupervision is unavailable): capped at no more than half of supervision hours (48 of 96)."
      ],
      "forms": [
        {
          "name": "Post Degree Experience and Supervision Form",
          "source_url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Applications"
        },
        {
          "name": "Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Initial License by Examination, Endorsement or Telehealth Method",
          "source_url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Applications"
        },
        {
          "name": "Jurisprudence Examination Guide",
          "source_url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/SocialWork/Applications"
        }
      ],
      "processing_benchmark": null,
      "endorsement_rules": null,
      "compact_status": {
        "member": true,
        "multistate_licenses_available": null,
        "source_url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-19"
      },
      "last_verified": "2026-09-19",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "4 CCR 726-1 Social Work Examiners Rules and Regulations, Rule 1.14",
          "url": "https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/GenerateRulePdf.do?ruleVersionId=9123"
        },
        {
          "label": "Senate Bill 24-115 (signed, as enacted)",
          "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2024a_115_signed.pdf"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "dataProblems": []
}