Maryland lawmakers on Monday presented carryover legislation that would allow licensed certified social workers to diagnose injured workers with mental impairments.
H.B. 694, which was scheduled for a hearing March 1, would authorize a licensed certified social worker to “register as a rehabilitation practitioner and would authorize such a social worker to provide evaluation services for workers compensation claims related to permanent impairments involving a behavioral or mental disorder.”
Last year’s bill was described as “dead” on the day it was filed.