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This bill enters New Jersey into the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT). The Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) approved the PSYPACT in February 2015. The PSYPACT, an interstate compact, was created to facilitate telehealth and temporary in-person, face-to-face practice of psychology across jurisdictional boundaries. The PSYPACT addresses compact administration and enforcement, data sharing, and finances. PSYPACT establishes an independent operating authority, the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission, to administer and enforce the compact and to address future issues surrounding telepsychology and temporary in‐person, face‐to‐face practice as needed. The PSYPACT establishes a mechanism for licensed psychologists to provide psychological services to patients in other states and jurisdictions through the use of telehealth and telemedicine and by temporarily recognizing a license issued by another jurisdiction for the purposes of permitting the psychologist to provide in person services outside the licensing jurisdiction. The following states have enacted PSYPACT: Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

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Herbert Conaway (D)*,  Lou Greenwald (D)*,  Pam Lampitt (D)*,  Shirley Turner (D)*,  Daniel Benson (D),  JoAnn Downey (D),  Carol Murphy (D),  Declan O'Scanlon (R),  Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D), 

Approved P.L.2021, c.229. (on 09/24/2021)

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