Bills › 91st General Assembly
Enacting the physician assistant licensure compact
Sponsored by the Senate Health and Human Services Committee
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 12, 2025
- Done: Passes the SenateMarch 26, 202547–0
- Skipped: House committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 10, 202588–0
- Done: To the GovernorMay 19, 2025
- Done: Signed into lawMay 27, 2025
HF 300 became law → The same legislation passed as HF 300, so this version was set aside. Go to HF 300 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary This law creates a way for physician assistants to work in different participating states without needing to get a new license for each one. It sets up a group of officials to manage the system and ensures all participating states follow the same basic rules. Once seven states join the agreement, the new rules will begin.1
Read the official explanation
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. This bill establishes the physician assistant licensure compact. The compact establishes a system whereby a physician assistant licensed to practice in one participating state may practice in another participating state under a compact privilege without applying for a license in that state. The compact imposes certain minimum requirements on the licensure of physician assistants in participating states. The compact creates a commission to administer the operation of the compact. The commission is an instrumentality of the participating states. The compact includes provisions relating to the establishment and membership of the commission; powers of the commission; meetings and voting requirements of the commission; commission bylaws and rules; commission committees; commission finances; the establishment of a data system; compacting state compliance; venue for judicial proceedings; defense and indemnification; effective dates and amendments to the compact; withdrawal, default, and expulsion; severability and construction; and the binding effect of the compact and other laws. The compact becomes effective upon the adoption of the compact by the seventh participating state.
Why it matters. Physician assistants licensed in participating states could practice in other member states without applying for a new license. A new commission would be created to manage the system, oversee minimum licensure requirements, and maintain a data system.2
Senate subcommittee
Named January 28, 2025 (as SSB 1052). On February 5, 2025 it recommended passage.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None became law, though one got through a chamber.
- HF 2375 Enacting the dietitian licensure compact90th General Assembly · Passed House · very similarPassed a chamber
- HSB 220 HSB 22090th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 656 · similarCleared committee
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