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KansasHB 20692025–2026 Regular SessionHouse
Enacting the school psychologist compact, the dietitian compact, the cosmetology compact and the physicians assistant compact to provide interstate practice privileges.
Sponsored By: Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Signed by Governor
senate committee on public health and welfarehouse committee on health and human services
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22 provisions identified: 6 benefits, 4 costs, 12 mixed.
Dietitians lose interstate access after discipline
Dietitians lose all remote-state compact privileges when disciplinary action places restrictions on their home-state license. Those privileges do not return automatically. After the home state certifies that the license is clear, the dietitian must meet compact eligibility requirements and reapply.
Cosmetologists gain multistate licenses with fees
Cosmetologists with active, unrestricted home-state licenses can apply for a multistate license recognized by other member states. Applicants must meet compact requirements, and licensees must follow each state's cosmetology laws. Member states must require training and competency exams, handle complaints, screen licensing histories, and share required records. The commission and home state can charge license and renewal fees. A home state can also charge for a required state-law test; fee amounts are not set.
Dietitians avoid duplicate continuing education rules
Dietitians working in another state through the compact follow their home state's continuing education rules. They do not have to meet the remote state's separate continuing education requirements.
Military dietitians can keep home states
Active-duty service members and their spouses can choose a dietitian compact home state where they hold a license in good standing. They can keep that designation while the service member remains on active duty.
Military families gain flexible licensing home states
The school psychologist compact gives eligible active-duty members and spouses flexible home-state license designations. Qualifying locations include permanent residence, the main practice state, or a member state reached under permanent change of station orders. Active-duty cosmetologists and spouses with a current license in good standing can designate that state as their compact home state. They can keep that designation during the active-duty assignment.
Practice compacts set start and exit timing
Each compact starts when its seventh state enacts it; the provided text does not establish a calendar start date. Dietitian and physician assistant compacts continue even if membership later falls below seven. Departing states must recognize school psychologist compact licenses for at least six months after notice, and cosmetology licenses for 180 days. Physician assistant withdrawal takes effect 180 days after repeal, with immediate licensee notice and recognition lasting at least 180 days after notice. The physician assistant board must continue required reporting for matters arising before withdrawal takes effect.
Privacy limits protect professional licensing records
Member states share licensing investigation and discipline records through compact data systems. Access to protected investigative information is limited to other member states. A contributing state can block public access to designated records unless it gives permission. The system must remove information expunged under federal law or the contributing state's law.
Certified licensing records count in proceedings
Compact records certified by the commission or its agent count as authenticated commission business records. In relevant court or agency proceedings, they qualify for the associated exception to hearsay rules. This includes records supplied through the physician assistant compact.
Compact operations can bring added fees
Compact commissions can assess member states annually to cover approved operating costs not covered by other revenue. Commission rules set how state assessments are divided. Dietitian, cosmetology, and physician assistant commissions can also charge participating licensees fees. Physician assistants changing the state through which they apply must pay any fee required by commission rules. The law does not set individual fee or state assessment amounts.
Cosmetology discipline can suspend interstate work
A state where cosmetology services occur can restrict or end a licensee's right to work there. Only the home state can discipline the multistate license itself. Home-state restrictions deactivate practice rights in all other member states until those restrictions are removed. Participation in an alternative program instead of discipline suspends the multistate license for the program's duration.
Nonmember residents lack multistate cosmetology access
Cosmetologists who do not live in a compact member state can still apply for a member state's single-state license. They must follow that state's licensing laws. That license does not provide compact privileges to work in other member states.
Dietitians face coordinated interstate discipline
Only the home state can discipline its dietitian license, and it must finish pending investigations even after a move. It must give out-of-state reports equal priority, apply its own laws, and report findings to the compact data system. Remote states can discipline local compact privileges under their due-process laws and use another state's findings under their own procedures. States can investigate together and must share case records; they can charge licensees investigation and case costs only when state law allows. Courts must enforce interstate subpoenas where witnesses or evidence are located, and the issuing authority pays required witness fees and expenses.
Dietitians gain interstate practice with requirements
Dietitians with an unrestricted home-state license can seek practice rights in other member states using a current registered-dietitian credential. The alternative path requires a qualifying master's or doctoral degree, 1,000 supervised practice hours, and an approved national exam. That exam must be within five years before initial licensure, with continuous licensure afterward. Dietitians must notify the commission, pay applicable fees, meet remote-state law requirements, and report specified nonmember-state actions within 30 days. Member states must establish fingerprint or other biometric screening and use FBI searches within the commission's timeframe. Practice rights expire and renew with the home-state license; states can charge privilege fees, but amounts are not set.
Moving cosmetologists must replace multistate licenses
Cosmetologists can hold a compact multistate license in only one home state at a time. Moving between member states requires an immediate application for reissuance, applicable fees, and notice to the former state. The new state verifies that the old license is active and unrestricted, checks eligibility, and deactivates the former license. It can require background checks or state-law tests required for initial licenses. Eligible movers can receive a replacement multistate license; those who do not qualify, or move to or from nonmember states, face regular single-state rules.
Moving dietitians must get new licenses
Dietitians moving between member states must apply for a new home-state license, pay fees, and notify both states. The new state verifies compact eligibility and requires an FBI fingerprint check and its state-law requirements. This provides a licensing path for eligible movers. Dietitians who do not qualify can face the new state's regular single-state licensing requirements.
School psychologists gain interstate licensing options
Qualified school psychologists can get an equivalent license in another member state. Home-state standards include a qualifying degree, a national exam, and 1,200 supervised internship hours, including 600 in schools. Applicants must keep an active home-state license, meet state-specific requirements, apply, pay fees, and complete a background check. Renewal requires another application, background check, fees, and compliance with home-state renewal and continuing education rules. States can charge license fees, and the commission can charge licensees when other funding falls short; amounts are not set.
Compact officials gain limited lawsuit protection
Covered compact officials and staff receive civil immunity for acts within their duties, limiting lawsuits against them. Commissions must defend them and cover qualifying civil claims, settlements, or judgments. These protections exclude intentional, willful, or wanton misconduct. Dietitians and physician assistants remain liable for professional malpractice under applicable state law.
Compact rules bind states with limits
A joint state commission governs the dietitian compact; dietitian and physician assistant member-state executive and judicial branches must enforce their compacts. Commission rules bind states, but cannot override protected state laws defining professional practice; dietitian and physician assistant conflicts require court findings. A majority of dietitian or physician assistant member-state legislatures can reject a rule within four years. Dietitian rules start the day after adoption unless a later date is set; existing physician assistant rules and bylaws bind a joining state when its compact enactment becomes law. Cosmetology commission rules override conflicting state requirements without state rulemaking procedures, but cannot override state scope-of-practice laws.
Compacts override conflicting state licensing laws
The dietitian and physician assistant compacts override conflicting laws and requirements in participating states. State requirements that do not conflict remain enforceable.
Licensing boards share records with safeguards
Compact systems track applicants and licensees, using unique identifiers and required reports on licenses, denials, discipline, and investigations. School psychologist states must exchange required information and provide requested investigation or discipline files. They must protect confidentiality and notify the source state before disclosing its information onward. Significant physician assistant investigation records are available only to participating states; legally nonpublic records still go to the commission. Criminal-history sharing follows legal limits, and records later expunged must be removed, with physician assistant removal following the state's report.
State compact exits include transition periods
States can leave the dietitian or cosmetology compact by passing a law repealing their participation. Withdrawal takes effect 180 days after that law is enacted. Until then, licensing authorities must keep meeting compact investigation and discipline-reporting duties. A departing dietitian compact state must also honor compact privileges for at least 180 days after notifying licensees.
State violations can end compact access
Compact commissions can end a state's membership after written notice, a chance to fix violations, and exhausted compliance efforts. Termination requires a majority vote of member-state delegates, and the state remains responsible for obligations and liabilities through termination. Under the dietitian compact, the state must honor privileges for at least six months after notifying licensees. Physician assistants generally retain affected privileges for 180 days after termination. That extension has an exception for physician assistants licensed in the terminated state who hold privileges elsewhere.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 119 Nay: 0
Yes: 119 • No: 0
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 121 Nay: 1
Yes: 121 • No: 1
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 40 Nay: 0
Yes: 40 • No: 0
House vote • 4/23/2026
Yea: 39 Nay: 1
Yes: 39 • No: 1
House vote • 3/26/2025
Conference Committee Report was adopted
Yes: 121 • No: 1
Senate vote • 3/26/2025
Conference Committee Report was adopted
Yes: 40 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/19/2025
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 39 • No: 1
House vote • 2/14/2025
Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended
Yes: 119 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Reengrossed on Monday, March 31, 2025
4/10/2025HouseEnrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, April 4, 2025
4/10/2025HouseApproved by Governor on Tuesday, April 8, 2025
4/8/2025HouseConference committee report now available
3/26/2025SenateConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 40, Nay 0
3/26/2025SenateConference Committee Report was adopted; Yea 121, Nay 1, Absent 3
3/26/2025HouseNonconcurred with amendments; Conference Committee requested; appointed Rep. Will Carpenter, Rep. Ron Bryce and Rep. Susan Ruiz
3/20/2025HouseMotion to accede adopted; Sen. Beverly Gossage, Sen. William Clifford and Sen. Cindy Holscher appointed as conferees
3/20/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
3/19/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
3/19/2025SenateEmergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 39, Nay 1
3/19/2025SenateCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
3/10/2025SenateHearing: Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 8:30 AM — Room 142-S
3/4/2025SenateReferred to Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
2/18/2025SenateEngrossed on Friday, February 14, 2025
2/17/2025HouseReceived and Introduced
2/17/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
2/14/2025HouseCommittee of the Whole - Be passed as amended
2/14/2025HouseMotion to advance to Emergency Final Action adopted
2/14/2025HouseEmergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea 119, Nay 0, Absent 6
2/14/2025HouseCommittee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by House Committee on Health and Human Services
2/7/2025HouseHearing: Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 1:30 PM — Room 112-N
2/5/2025HouseIntroduced
1/23/2025HouseReferred to House Committee on Health and Human Services
1/23/2025House
Bill Text
As Amended by House Committee on Health and Human Services
As Amended by Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare
As Introduced
Enrolled
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