Private adoption agencies: licensing.

Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to deny a private adoption agency a license, and to revoke an existing private adoption agency license, unless the applicant or licensee demonstrates that it employs either an executive director or a supervisor who has had at least 5 years of full-time social work employment in the field of child welfare, as described, 2 years of which have been spent performing adoption social work services, as specified. This bill would specify that these provisions of law do not require an executive director or supervisor of a private adoption agency to be licensed as a clinical social worker, provided the individual meets the requisite years of experience in social work employment and adoption social work services.