Title 16 — Title 16

(a) The purpose of this compact is to facilitate the mobility of teachers across the member states, with the goal of supporting teachers through a new pathway to licensure. Through this compact, the member states seek to establish a collective regulatory framework that expedites …

(a) Oversight. (1) The executive and judicial branches of state government in each member state shall enforce this compact and take all actions necessary and appropriate to effectuate the compact’s purposes and intent. This compact shall have standing as statutory law. (2) Venue …

(a) The compact shall come into effect on the date on which the compact statute is enacted into law in the tenth member state. (1) On or after the effective date of this compact, the commission shall convene and review the enactment of each of the charter member states to determi…

This compact shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any member state or a state seeking …

(a) Nothing herein shall prevent or inhibit the enforcement of any other law of a member state that is not inconsistent with this compact. (b) Any laws, statutes, regulations, or other legal requirements in a member state in conflict with this compact are superseded to the extent…

As used in this compact, and except as otherwise provided, the following definitions shall govern the terms herein: (1) ACTIVE MILITARY MEMBER. Any individual with full-time duty status in the Armed Forces of the United States, including members of the National Guard and Reserve.…

(a) Licensure under this compact pertains only to the initial grant of a license by the receiving state. Nothing herein applies to any subsequent or ongoing compliance requirements that a receiving state might require for teachers. (b) Each member state, in accordance with the ru…

(a) Except as provided in Section 16-44C-3, nothing in this compact shall be construed to limit or inhibit the power of a member state to regulate licensure or endorsements overseen by the member state’s licensing authority. (b) When a teacher is required to renew a license recei…

Compact. (a) Except as provided for active military members or eligible military spouses in subsection (d) of Section 16-44C-3, a teacher may only be eligible to receive a license under this compact where that teacher holds an unencumbered license in a member state. (b) A teacher…

(a) Nothing in this compact shall be deemed or construed to limit the authority of a member state to investigate or impose disciplinary measures on teachers according to the state practice laws thereof. (b) Member states may receive, and shall provide, files and information regar…

(a) The compact member states hereby create and establish a joint public agency known as the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact Commission: (1) The commission is a joint interstate governmental agency comprised of states that have enacted this compact. (2) Nothing in this compac…

(a) The commission shall exercise its rulemaking powers pursuant to the criteria set forth in this compact and the rules adopted thereunder. Rules and amendments shall become binding as of the date specified in each rule or amendment. (b) The commission shall adopt reasonable rul…

(a) The commission shall provide for facilitating the exchange of information to administer and implement this compact in accordance with the rules of the commission, consistent with generally accepted data protection principles. (b) Nothing in this compact shall be deemed or con…