South Carolina § 40-63-620 - Effectiveness of compact; withdrawal; amendment.

§ 40-63-620. Effectiveness of compact; withdrawal; amendment.

(A) The compact shall come into effect on the date on which the compact statute is enacted into law in the seventh member state. The provisions, which become effective at that time, shall be limited to the powers granted to the commission relating to assembly and the promulgation of rules. Thereafter, the commission shall meet and exercise rulemaking powers necessary to the implementation and administration of the compact. All actions taken for the benefit of the commission and/or in furtherance of the purposes of the administration of the compact prior to the effective date of the compact and/or the commission coming into existence shall be considered to be actions of the commission unless specifically repudiated by the commission.

(B) Any state that joins the compact subsequent to the commission's initial adoption of the rules and bylaws shall be subject to the rules and bylaws as they exist on the date on which the compact becomes law in that state. Any rule that has been previously adopted by the commission shall have the full force and effect of law on the day the compact becomes law in that state.

(C) Any member state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repealing the same.

(1) A member state's withdrawal shall not take effect until one hundred eighty days after enactment of the repealing statute.

(2) Withdrawal shall not affect the continuing requirement of the withdrawing state's licensing authority to comply with the investigative and adverse action reporting requirements of this compact prior to the effective date of withdrawal.

(D) Upon the enactment of a statute withdrawing from this compact, a state shall immediately provide notice of such withdrawal to all licensees within that state. Notwithstanding any subsequent statutory enactment to the contrary, such withdrawing state shall continue to recognize all licenses granted pursuant to this compact for a minimum of six months after the date of such notice of withdrawal.

(E) Nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to invalidate or prevent any social work licensure agreement or other cooperative arrangement between a member state and a nonmember state that does not conflict with the provisions of this compact.

(F) This compact may be amended by the member states. No amendment to this compact shall become effective and binding upon any member state until it is enacted into the laws of all member states.

HISTORY: 2025 Act No. 66 (H.3752), SECTION 2, eff May 22, 2025.

Editor's Note

2025 Act No. 66, SECTION 1, provides as follows:

"SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the 'Social Work Interstate Compact Act.'"