Bill > S0970

Introduced Session

An act relating to the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact; creating s. 468.371, F.S.; enacting the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact; providing purpose and intent; defining terms; requiring member states to meet certain requirements to join and participate in the compact; providing that the compact does not prohibit member states from charging a specified fee; providing criteria that a respiratory therapist licensee must satisfy to practice under the compact; authorizing a certain licensing authority or government agency to establish the scope of practice for a licensee providing therapy in a remote state; providing processes for a licensee whose license is removed, encumbered, restricted, or limited; providing requirements for renewal of an equivalent license in a member state; authorizing an active military member and his or her spouse to be deemed as having a home state license under certain circumstances; authorizing member states to impose adverse actions against licensees under certain circumstances; authorizing member states to participate with other member states in joint investigations of licensees under certain circumstances; providing construction; establishing the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact Commission; providing commission membership, duties, and powers; providing for powers, duties, and responsibilities of an executive committee; requiring the committee to adopt and provide an annual report to member states; providing for commission and executive committee meetings; authorizing the commission or executive committee to convene in closed, nonpublic meetings under certain circumstances; requiring the commission to keep meeting minutes in a specified manner; providing for financing of the commission; requiring the commission to keep certain financial documentation; providing for qualified immunity, defense, and indemnification of the commission; providing exceptions; providing for the development, maintenance, and use of a coordinated database and reporting system; requiring member states to submit specified information to the data system; providing requirements for the information in the data system; providing rulemaking procedures; providing for state enforcement of the compact; providing for the termination of compact membership; providing procedures for the resolution of certain disputes; providing for an effective date; providing for withdrawal from the compact; providing compact amendment procedures; providing construction and severability and binding effect of the compact; amending ss. 456.076, 468.353, 468.355, 468.361, and 768.28, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date.

AI Summary

Tommy Wright (R)*, 

Introduced (on 01/13/2026)

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