Bill > S103

This bill establishes the Nurse Licensure Compact in Massachusetts. The key provisions are: - It allows nurses with a multistate license issued by their home state to practice in any other party state under a multistate licensure privilege, while also giving party state licensing boards authority to take disciplinary action against a nurse's multistate license. - It creates the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators, a joint public entity that will oversee the compact's implementation and administration. - It requires the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing to adopt regulations to implement the compact, and allows the board to recover costs of investigations and disciplinary actions from nurses. - It authorizes the board to conduct fingerprint-based criminal background checks on applicants for multistate licenses. - It directs the Secretary of Administration and Finance to increase licensing fees as necessary to fund the implementation of the compact. - It sets the effective date of Massachusetts' entry into the compact as one year after the effective date of the bill.

Health and Social Services, Labor and Employment

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/S103