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This bill enacts the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact, establishing a framework for licensed audiologists and speech-language pathologists to practice across member states, thereby improving public access to these services. The compact allows for a "privilege to practice" in other member states based on a licensee's "home state" license, which is their primary state of residence, and requires states to conduct criminal history background checks for applicants. It also creates an "Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Compact Commission" to oversee the compact's implementation, promulgate rules, and manage a data system for sharing licensure and disciplinary information among member states, while also amending existing law to mandate state and federal criminal history background checks for licensure.

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