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Enacting the physician assistant licensure compact
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2025
- Done: House committeeFebruary 6, 2025
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 300
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 300 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 300 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Physician assistants who are licensed in one participating state can practice in another participating state without needing a new license. This agreement sets minimum rules for these professionals and creates a commission to manage how the system works. The compact will officially start once seven different states join.1
Read the official explanation
_____ 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.
House subcommittee
Named January 28, 2025. On February 6, 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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