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  "_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": "NH",
  "name": "New Hampshire",
  "url": "https://www.socialworktestprepacademy.com/licensing/nh",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "checked": true,
  "lastChecked": "2026-09-27",
  "board": {
    "name": "New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice, Office of Professional Licensure and Certification",
    "url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-mental-health-practice"
  },
  "firstCredential": {
    "abbr": "Conditional LICSW",
    "title": "Conditional license on a board-approved supervisory agreement (the credential a New Hampshire MSW graduate holds while LICSW hours accrue; up to 2 years, one renewal)",
    "rung": "supervisee",
    "exam": "none"
  },
  "examRequiredFirst": false,
  "examOrderReason": null,
  "summary": "No exam to register. The Clinical exam comes after your hours.",
  "aswbExam": null,
  "knownFeesUsd": 325,
  "unknownFeeCount": 0,
  "conflictFeeCount": 0,
  "fees": [
    {
      "name": "License application processing and licensing, initial or initial conditional, 2-year license (Plc 1002.29)",
      "amount_usd": 297,
      "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/plc1000.html",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    },
    {
      "name": "Professional Health Program (PHP) fee, mandatory, paid at licensing (with the $297, the board's $325 application fee)",
      "amount_usd": 28,
      "source_url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-mental-health-practice-license-fees",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
    }
  ],
  "supervision": {
    "experience_hours": {
      "value": 3000,
      "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18.htm",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    },
    "client_contact_hours": null,
    "supervision_hours": {
      "value": 100,
      "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/mhp300.html",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    },
    "minimum_months": {
      "value": 24,
      "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18.htm",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    },
    "maximum_months": {
      "value": 48,
      "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/mhp300.html",
      "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
    },
    "notes": [
      "Mhp 304.02(a)(1): each year of supervised clinical work experience must be at least 1,500 hours completed within not less than 12 and not more than 24 months, for a total of 3,000 hours.",
      "Mhp 304.02(a)(2): at least one hour per week of individual face-to-face supervision, for a total of 100 hours.",
      "Mhp 304.03(c): applicants must have worked under board-approved supervision for at least 18 months before taking the ASWB Clinical exam.",
      "RSA 330-A:18, III and Mhp 304.02(b): a current Master Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (MLADC) license may substitute for up to 1,500 of the 3,000 hours and up to 50% of the face-to-face supervision hours.",
      "Hours accrue under the conditional license (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)) on the masters record."
    ]
  },
  "hours": "3,000 hours, 100 supervision, for the LICSW",
  "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"
  },
  "applicationSequence": [
    "Hold a master's or doctoral degree in social work or social welfare from a CSWE-approved program (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)(1)).",
    "Obtain a board-approved supervisory agreement documenting intent to pursue licensure as a clinical social worker (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)(2)).",
    "On approval of the supervision agreement, the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification issues the conditional license (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)(4)).",
    "The conditional license is valid for no more than 2 years; an applicant in good standing may renew it once (RSA 330-A:18-d, II).",
    "The 3,000 supervised hours and the ASWB Clinical exam that lead to the LICSW are on the clinical record."
  ],
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    {
      "rung": "bachelors",
      "abbr": "LSW",
      "title": "Licensed Social Worker (bachelor's degree plus 4,000 supervised hours; practices under clinical supervision for the first 2 years of licensure)",
      "exam": "Bachelors",
      "supervised": true,
      "source": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/mhp300.html"
    },
    {
      "rung": "supervisee",
      "abbr": "Conditional LICSW",
      "title": "Conditional license on a board-approved supervisory agreement (the credential a New Hampshire MSW graduate holds while LICSW hours accrue; up to 2 years, one renewal)",
      "exam": "none",
      "supervised": true,
      "source": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18-d.htm"
    },
    {
      "rung": "clinical",
      "abbr": "LICSW",
      "title": "Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (New Hampshire has no non-clinical master's license)",
      "exam": "Clinical",
      "supervised": false,
      "source": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/mhp300.html"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice, Office of Professional Licensure and Certification · Conditional LICSW applicant resources",
      "url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-mental-health-practice"
    },
    {
      "label": "RSA 330-A:18-d (Social Work; Conditional License)",
      "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18-d.htm"
    },
    {
      "label": "RSA 330-A:18-b (Licensed Social Workers: Initial License, bachelor's level)",
      "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18-b.htm"
    },
    {
      "label": "Plc 1002.29 (fees for professions regulated by the Board of Mental Health Practice)",
      "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/plc1000.html"
    },
    {
      "label": "RSA 330-A:18-e (Social Work Licensure Compact Adopted)",
      "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18-e.htm"
    },
    {
      "label": "Conditional LICSW fees · Professional Health Program (PHP) fee, mandatory, paid at licensing (with the $297, the board's $325 application fee)",
      "url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-mental-health-practice-license-fees"
    },
    {
      "label": "Social Work Licensure Compact · member jurisdictions",
      "url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/"
    },
    {
      "label": "RSA 330-A:18 (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Workers)",
      "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18.htm"
    },
    {
      "label": "RSA 330-A (Mental Health Practice, full chapter)",
      "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-mrg.htm"
    },
    {
      "label": "Mhp 300 (Board of Mental Health Practice licensure rules)",
      "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/mhp300.html"
    },
    {
      "label": "LICSW fees · ASWB Clinical examination",
      "url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/"
    }
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    {
      "state": {
        "name": "New Hampshire",
        "postal_code": "NH"
      },
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        "track": "masters",
        "title": "Conditional License, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker track",
        "abbreviation": "Conditional LICSW"
      },
      "board": {
        "name": "New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice, Office of Professional Licensure and Certification",
        "source_url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-mental-health-practice"
      },
      "fees": [
        {
          "name": "License application processing and licensing, initial or initial conditional, 2-year license (Plc 1002.29)",
          "amount_usd": 297,
          "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/plc1000.html",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        {
          "name": "Professional Health Program (PHP) fee, mandatory, paid at licensing (with the $297, the board's $325 application fee)",
          "amount_usd": 28,
          "source_url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-mental-health-practice-license-fees",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
        },
        {
          "name": "License renewal, 2-year (Plc 1002.29; the board's page lists $325 with the $28 PHP fee)",
          "amount_usd": 297,
          "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/plc1000.html",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
        }
      ],
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        "Hold a master's or doctoral degree in social work or social welfare from a CSWE-approved program (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)(1)).",
        "Obtain a board-approved supervisory agreement documenting intent to pursue licensure as a clinical social worker (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)(2)).",
        "On approval of the supervision agreement, the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification issues the conditional license (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)(4)).",
        "The conditional license is valid for no more than 2 years; an applicant in good standing may renew it once (RSA 330-A:18-d, II).",
        "The 3,000 supervised hours and the ASWB Clinical exam that lead to the LICSW are on the clinical record."
      ],
      "aswb_exam": {
        "level": null,
        "fee_usd": null,
        "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18-d.htm",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
      },
      "supervision_requirement": {
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        "client_contact_hours": null,
        "supervision_hours": null,
        "minimum_months": null,
        "maximum_months": null,
        "notes": [
          "New Hampshire has no non-clinical master's license. RSA 330-A's Licensed Social Worker (LSW, 330-A:18-b) requires only a bachelor's degree in social work plus 4,000 hours of supervised work experience and a board-approved exam (the ASWB Bachelor's exam per Mhp 302.05), so it sits on the ladder's bachelors rung. The credential an MSW graduate holds while LICSW hours accrue is this conditional license, the same shape as Florida's RCSWI and North Carolina's LCSWA.",
          "The conditional license is not an exam credential: no ASWB exam is required to obtain it. It lasts up to 2 years with one renewal (RSA 330-A:18-d, II).",
          "Fees come from the OPLC fee rule Plc 1002.29 on the General Court rules site. oplc.nh.gov itself returns 403 to fetchers."
        ]
      },
      "supervisor_eligibility": [
        "Board-approved licensed independent clinical social worker or licensed clinical mental health counselor supervisor, or another supervisor meeting criteria in rules adopted under RSA 330-A:10 (RSA 330-A:18, III; RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)(2))."
      ],
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      "processing_benchmark": null,
      "endorsement_rules": null,
      "compact_status": {
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        "multistate_licenses_available": null,
        "source_url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
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      "last_verified": "2026-09-27",
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        {
          "label": "RSA 330-A:18-d (Social Work; Conditional License)",
          "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18-d.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "RSA 330-A:18-b (Licensed Social Workers: Initial License, bachelor's level)",
          "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18-b.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "Plc 1002.29 (fees for professions regulated by the Board of Mental Health Practice)",
          "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/plc1000.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "RSA 330-A:18-e (Social Work Licensure Compact Adopted)",
          "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18-e.htm"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "state": {
        "name": "New Hampshire",
        "postal_code": "NH"
      },
      "license_target": {
        "track": "clinical",
        "title": "Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker",
        "abbreviation": "LICSW"
      },
      "board": {
        "name": "New Hampshire Board of Mental Health Practice, Office of Professional Licensure and Certification",
        "source_url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-mental-health-practice"
      },
      "fees": [
        {
          "name": "License application processing and licensing, initial or initial conditional, 2-year license (Plc 1002.29)",
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          "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/plc1000.html",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        {
          "name": "Professional Health Program (PHP) fee, mandatory, paid at licensing (with the $297, the board's $325 application fee)",
          "amount_usd": 28,
          "source_url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-mental-health-practice-license-fees",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
        },
        {
          "name": "Jurisprudence examination",
          "amount_usd": 60,
          "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/plc1000.html",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        {
          "name": "ASWB Clinical examination",
          "amount_usd": 260,
          "source_url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        {
          "name": "License renewal, 2-year (Plc 1002.29; the board's page lists $325 with the $28 PHP fee)",
          "amount_usd": 297,
          "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/plc1000.html",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-29"
        }
      ],
      "application_sequence": [
        "Hold a college undergraduate degree and a 2-year master's or doctoral degree in social work from a CSWE-approved school (RSA 330-A:18, I-II; Mhp 304.01).",
        "Obtain a conditional license on a board-approved supervisory agreement (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)).",
        "Complete at least 2 years and 3,000 hours of post-master's supervised clinical experience, with at least 100 hours of individual face-to-face supervision, finished within 4 years of the approved supervision's start (RSA 330-A:18, III; Mhp 304.02).",
        "After at least 18 months of board-approved supervision, file the Request To Sit For the ASWB Clinical Exam with OPLC and pass the ASWB Clinical exam (Mhp 304.03).",
        "Pass the New Hampshire jurisprudence examination and pay the $297 license fee (Mhp 302.05(a)(12)-(13); Plc 1002.29)."
      ],
      "aswb_exam": {
        "level": "Clinical",
        "fee_usd": 260,
        "source_url": "https://www.aswb.org/exam/",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
      },
      "supervision_requirement": {
        "experience_hours": {
          "value": 3000,
          "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18.htm",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        "client_contact_hours": null,
        "supervision_hours": {
          "value": 100,
          "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/mhp300.html",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        "minimum_months": {
          "value": 24,
          "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18.htm",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
        "maximum_months": {
          "value": 48,
          "source_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/mhp300.html",
          "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
        },
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          "Mhp 304.02(a)(1): each year of supervised clinical work experience must be at least 1,500 hours completed within not less than 12 and not more than 24 months, for a total of 3,000 hours.",
          "Mhp 304.02(a)(2): at least one hour per week of individual face-to-face supervision, for a total of 100 hours.",
          "Mhp 304.03(c): applicants must have worked under board-approved supervision for at least 18 months before taking the ASWB Clinical exam.",
          "RSA 330-A:18, III and Mhp 304.02(b): a current Master Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (MLADC) license may substitute for up to 1,500 of the 3,000 hours and up to 50% of the face-to-face supervision hours.",
          "Hours accrue under the conditional license (RSA 330-A:18-d, I(a)) on the masters record."
        ]
      },
      "supervisor_eligibility": [
        "Board-approved licensed independent clinical social worker or licensed clinical mental health counselor supervisor, or another supervisor meeting criteria in rules adopted under RSA 330-A:10 (RSA 330-A:18, III).",
        "The supervisor must be licensed in the state where the supervision takes place, must not be related to the supervisee, and must not have an impairing dual relationship (Mhp 304.02(d))."
      ],
      "forms": [],
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      "endorsement_rules": null,
      "compact_status": {
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        "multistate_licenses_available": null,
        "source_url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
        "verified_date": "2026-09-27"
      },
      "last_verified": "2026-09-27",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "RSA 330-A:18 (Licensed Independent Clinical Social Workers)",
          "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-18.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "RSA 330-A (Mental Health Practice, full chapter)",
          "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-A/330-A-mrg.htm"
        },
        {
          "label": "Mhp 300 (Board of Mental Health Practice licensure rules)",
          "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/mhp300.html"
        },
        {
          "label": "Plc 1000 (OPLC fees)",
          "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/plc1000.html"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "dataProblems": []
}