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This law was first created in 1976. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 608 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1976 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 4 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1981, chapters 447 and 555; in 1986, chapter 464; in 1988, chapters 42 and 765; in 2006, chapter 685<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":244081,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55949,"identifier":"54.1-3703","token":"54.1\/III\/37\/1\/54.1-3703","url":"\/54.1-3703\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-3703\/","token":"54.1\/III\/37\/1\/54.1-3703","dublin_core":{"Title":"Board of Social Work; members","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-3703","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Board<\/span> of Social Work shall regulate the practice of social work<\/span>.\n\t\tThe Board<\/span> shall be composed of nine nonlegislative citizen members appointed by the Governor, seven of whom shall be licensed social workers<\/span> who have been in active practice of social work<\/span> for at least five years prior to appointment and two of whom shall be nonlegislative citizen members at large. The terms of the members of the Board<\/span> shall be four years.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nBOARD OF SOCIAL WORK; MEMBERS (\u00a7 54.1-3703)\n\nThe Board of Social Work shall regulate the practice of social work.\n\t\tThe Board shall be composed of nine nonlegislative citizen members appointed\nby the Governor, seven of whom shall be licensed social workers who have been in\nactive practice of social work for at least five years prior to appointment and\ntwo of whom shall be nonlegislative citizen members at large. The terms of the\nmembers of the Board shall be four years.\n\nHISTORY: 1976, c. 608, \u00a7 54-942; 1981, cc. 447, 555; 1986, c. 464; 1988, cc.\n42, 765; 2006, c. 685.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}