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    "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": "ME",
  "name": "Maine",
  "url": "https://www.socialworktestprepacademy.com/licensing/me",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "checked": true,
  "lastChecked": "2026-09-29",
  "board": {
    "name": "Maine Board of Social Worker Licensure",
    "url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure"
  },
  "firstCredential": {
    "abbr": "LM",
    "title": "Licensed Master Social Worker (non-clinical, independent)",
    "rung": "masters",
    "exam": "Masters"
  },
  "examRequiredFirst": true,
  "examOrderReason": null,
  "summary": "The ASWB Masters exam is required before the license.",
  "aswbExam": {
    "level": "Masters",
    "feeUsd": 230
  },
  "knownFeesUsd": 321,
  "unknownFeeCount": 0,
  "conflictFeeCount": 0,
  "fees": [
    {
      "name": "Initial license fee",
      "amount_usd": 70,
      "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    },
    {
      "name": "Criminal history check",
      "amount_usd": 21,
      "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    },
    {
      "name": "ASWB Masters examination",
      "amount_usd": 230,
      "source_url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    }
  ],
  "supervision": {
    "experience_hours": {
      "value": 3200,
      "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27",
      "notes": "3,200 hours is the Board's own figure (Licensing and Forms page). 32 M.R.S. 7053 sets no hour total for the clinical-concentration LCSW path (2 years of social work experience with 96 hours of consultation); its 3,200-hour figure, in 7053(3-C)(A), is written for the LSW."
    },
    "client_contact_hours": null,
    "supervision_hours": {
      "value": 96,
      "source_url": "https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/32/title32sec7053.html",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    },
    "minimum_months": {
      "value": 24,
      "source_url": "https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/32/title32sec7053.html",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    },
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    "notes": [
      "Applicants whose MSW is in a non-clinical concentration instead complete 192 hours of consultation concurrent with 6,400 hours of social work employment over not less than 4 years (32 M.R.S. §7053; maine.gov statute summary). This record states the clinical-concentration MSW path only; maximum_months is left null because no ceiling on the clinical-concentration path (beyond the alternate 4-year non-clinical path) was located.",
      "Maine's own credential code for this license is 'LC' (the board's page repeatedly uses 'LC' alongside the full title 'Licensed Clinical Social Worker'); it is commonly referred to as LCSW.",
      "Since January 1, 2020, all new applicants (LSX through LC) must also complete at least 12 hours of coursework in family or intimate partner violence, per 32 M.R.S. §7060."
    ]
  },
  "hours": "3,200 hours, 96 supervision, for the LC",
  "compactMember": true,
  "compactNote": null,
  "compactStatus": {
    "status": "enacted",
    "sourceUrl": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
    "checkedOn": "2026-09-27"
  },
  "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"
  },
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    "Hold an earned master's or doctoral degree in social work or social welfare from an accredited educational institution.",
    "Pass the ASWB Masters examination.",
    "Submit a completed online application, an official MSW transcript, and license verifications for any professional license ever held.",
    "Pay the $70 license fee and $21 criminal history check fee."
  ],
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    {
      "rung": "bachelors",
      "abbr": "LS",
      "title": "Licensed Social Worker (a Conditional LSX license, held under a consultant with no exam, can come first while the LS hours accrue)",
      "exam": "Bachelors",
      "supervised": false,
      "source": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms"
    },
    {
      "rung": "masters",
      "abbr": "LM",
      "title": "Licensed Master Social Worker (non-clinical, independent)",
      "exam": "Masters",
      "supervised": false,
      "source": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms"
    },
    {
      "rung": "supervisee",
      "abbr": "MC",
      "title": "Licensed Master Social Worker, Conditional Clinical (accrues LC hours under a qualified consultant)",
      "exam": "Masters",
      "supervised": true,
      "source": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms"
    },
    {
      "rung": "clinical",
      "abbr": "LC",
      "title": "Licensed Clinical Social Worker",
      "exam": "Clinical",
      "supervised": false,
      "source": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms"
    }
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    {
      "label": "Maine Board of Social Worker Licensure · LM applicant resources",
      "url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure"
    },
    {
      "label": "32 M.R.S. §7053 (Qualifications)",
      "url": "https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/32/title32sec7053.html"
    },
    {
      "label": "Board of Social Worker Licensure - Licensing and Forms (fee schedule, per-credential requirements)",
      "url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms"
    },
    {
      "label": "LM fees · ASWB Masters examination",
      "url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Social Work Licensure Compact · member jurisdictions",
      "url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/"
    }
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        "postal_code": "ME"
      },
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        "abbreviation": "LM"
      },
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        "name": "Maine Board of Social Worker Licensure",
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      },
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          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        {
          "name": "Criminal history check",
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          "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        {
          "name": "Renewal fee (biennial)",
          "amount_usd": 70,
          "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
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        "value": "Applicants who hold an active social worker license, in good standing, in another U.S. state or jurisdiction, may apply for the equivalent Maine social worker license through licensure by endorsement; Board Rules Chapter 12 sets endorsement eligibility and Chapter 13 sets license-requirement equivalency.",
        "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
      },
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        },
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          "label": "Board of Social Worker Licensure - Licensing and Forms (fee schedule, per-credential requirements)",
          "url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms"
        }
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      },
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        "abbreviation": "LC"
      },
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        "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure"
      },
      "fees": [
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          "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        {
          "name": "Criminal history check",
          "amount_usd": 21,
          "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        {
          "name": "Renewal fee (biennial)",
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          "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        {
          "name": "ASWB Clinical examination",
          "amount_usd": 260,
          "source_url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
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        "Complete 96 hours of consultation concurrent with 3,200 hours of social work employment in a clinical setting (clinical-concentration MSW pathway), over not less than 2 years.",
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        "Submit a completed online application, an official MSW transcript, and Verification of Consultation form(s) documenting the completed consultation.",
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        "source_url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
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          "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27",
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          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
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          "value": 24,
          "source_url": "https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/32/title32sec7053.html",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
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          "Applicants whose MSW is in a non-clinical concentration instead complete 192 hours of consultation concurrent with 6,400 hours of social work employment over not less than 4 years (32 M.R.S. §7053; maine.gov statute summary). This record states the clinical-concentration MSW path only; maximum_months is left null because no ceiling on the clinical-concentration path (beyond the alternate 4-year non-clinical path) was located.",
          "Maine's own credential code for this license is 'LC' (the board's page repeatedly uses 'LC' alongside the full title 'Licensed Clinical Social Worker'); it is commonly referred to as LCSW.",
          "Since January 1, 2020, all new applicants (LSX through LC) must also complete at least 12 hours of coursework in family or intimate partner violence, per 32 M.R.S. §7060."
        ]
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        {
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          "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms"
        },
        {
          "name": "Agreement to Provide Consultation form",
          "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms"
        }
      ],
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        "value": "Applicants who hold an active social worker license, in good standing, in another U.S. state or jurisdiction, may apply for the equivalent Maine social worker license through licensure by endorsement; Board Rules Chapter 12 sets endorsement eligibility and Chapter 13 sets license-requirement equivalency.",
        "source_url": "https://www.maine.gov/pfr/professionallicensing/professions/state-board-social-worker-licensure/licensing-and-forms",
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        {
          "label": "32 M.R.S. §7053 (Qualifications)",
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        },
        {
          "label": "Board of Social Worker Licensure - Licensing and Forms (fee schedule, per-credential requirements)",
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