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Regulatory Amendments approved and effective May 6, 2025

The New York State Board of Regents approved emergency regulatory amendments in social work that are effective May 6, 2025. These regulatory amendments conform New York State’s social work licensure examination requirements with national standards set by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) by permitting English as a second language (ESL) testing accommodations. For a detailed view of the regulatory amendments, see the Regents’ website at https://www.regents.nysed.gov/sites/regents/files/525ppca1.pdf.

Below is a summary of the regulatory changes:

ESL testing accommodations are now permitted, and in accordance with ASWB standards such accommodations include:

  1. Providing ESL candidates with additional time (up to two extra hours); and
  2. Allowing ESL candidates to use up to two dictionaries, one bilingual word-to-word translation dictionary and/or one general English dictionary.