[§453B-2] Terms and provisions of compact; authorization; governor. The legislature hereby authorizes the governor to enter into a compact on behalf of the State of Hawaii with any other state legally joining therein, in the form substantially as follows:
INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT
SECTION 1. PURPOSE
In order to strengthen access to health care, and in recognition of the advances in the delivery of health care, the member states of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact have allied in common purpose to develop a comprehensive process that complements the existing licensing and regulatory authority of state medical boards, provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in multiple states, thereby enhancing the portability of a medical license and ensuring the safety of patients. The Compact creates another pathway for licensure and does not otherwise change a state's existing Medical Practice Act. The Compact also adopts the prevailing standard for licensure and affirms that the practice of medicine occurs where the patient is located at the time of the physician-patient encounter, and therefore, requires the physician to be under the jurisdiction of the state medical board where the patient is located. State medical boards that participate in the Compact retain the jurisdiction to impose an adverse action against a license to practice medicine in that state issued to a physician through the procedures in the Compact.
SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS
In this compact:
SECTION 3. ELIGIBILITY
SECTION 4. DESIGNATION OF STATE OF PRINCIPAL LICENSE
SECTION 5. APPLICATION AND ISSUANCE OF EXPEDITED LICENSURE
SECTION 6. FEES FOR EXPEDITED LICENSURE
SECTION 7. RENEWAL AND CONTINUED PARTICIPATION
SECTION 8. COORDINATED INFORMATION SYSTEM
SECTION 9. JOINT INVESTIGATIONS
SECTION 10. DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS
SECTION 11. INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT COMMISSION
SECTION 12. POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION
SECTION 13. FINANCE POWERS
SECTION 14. ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION
SECTION 15. RULEMAKING FUNCTIONS OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION
SECTION 16. OVERSIGHT OF INTERSTATE COMPACT
SECTION 17. ENFORCEMENT OF INTERSTATE COMPACT
SECTION 18. DEFAULT PROCEDURES
SECTION 19. DISPUTE RESOLUTION
SECTION 20. MEMBER STATES, EFFECTIVE DATE AND AMENDMENT
SECTION 21. WITHDRAWAL
SECTION 22. DISSOLUTION
SECTION 23. SEVERABILITY AND CONSTRUCTION
SECTION 24. BINDING EFFECT OF COMPACT AND OTHER LAWS