Chapter 112A

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Adverse action'', an administrative, civil, equitable or criminal action permitted by a state's laws which is imposed by a licensing board or…

Section 10. This compact shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes. 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 party state or of the United …

Section 11. The executive director of the board of registration in nursing or a designee thereof shall be the administrator of the nurse licensure compact for the commonwealth.

Section 12. The board of registration in nursing shall adopt regulations in the same manner as all other states legally joining in the compact and may adopt additional regulations as necessary to implement this chapter.

Section 13. The board of registration in nursing may recover from a nurse the costs of investigation and disposition of cases resulting in any adverse disciplinary action taken against that nurse's license or privilege to practice. Funds collected pursuant to this section shall b…

Section 14. The board of registration in nursing may take disciplinary action against the practice privilege of a registered nurse or of a licensed practical or vocational nurse practicing in the commonwealth under a license issued by the party state. The board's disciplinary act…

Section 15. In reporting information to the coordinated licensure information system under section 8 related to the nurse licensure compact, the board of registration in nursing may disclose personally identifiable information about the nurse, including the nurse's social securit…

Section 16. Nothing in this chapter, including the entrance of the commonwealth into the nurse licensure compact, shall supersede existing labor laws.

Section 17. The commonwealth, its officers and employees, and the board of registration in nursing and its agents who act in accordance with this chapter shall not be liable for any act or omission in good faith while engaged in the performance of their duties under this chapter.…

Section 18. As part of the licensure and background check process for a multistate license and to determine the suitability of an applicant for multistate licensure, the board of registration in nursing, prior to issuing any such multistate license, shall conduct a fingerprint-ba…

Section 2. (a) A multistate license to practice as a nurse issued by a home state to a resident in that state shall be recognized by each party state as authorizing a nurse to practice as a registered nurse, a licensed practical or vocational nurse under a multistate licensure pr…

Section 3. (a) Upon application for a multistate license, the licensing board in the issuing party state shall ascertain, through the coordinated licensure information system, whether the applicant has ever held, or is the holder of, a license issued by any other state, whether t…

Section 4. (a) In addition to the other powers conferred by state law, a licensing board may: (i) take adverse action against a nurse's multistate licensure privilege to practice within that party state; provided however, that only the home state may to take adverse action agains…

Section 5. (a) All party states shall participate in a coordinated licensure information system of all licensed registered nurses and licensed practical or vocational nurses. This system will include information on the licensure and disciplinary history of each nurse, as submitte…

Section 6. (a) The party states hereby create and establish a joint public entity known as the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators which shall be an instrumentality of the party states. Venue is proper and judicial proceedings by or against the interst…

Section 7. (a) The interstate commission shall exercise its rulemaking powers pursuant to the criteria set forth in this section and the rules adopted hereunder. Rules and amendments shall become binding as of the date specified in each rule or amendment and shall have the same f…

Section 8. (a)(1) Each party state shall enforce this compact and take all actions necessary and appropriate to effectuate this compact's purposes and intent. (2) The interstate commission may receive service of process in any proceeding that may affect the powers, responsibiliti…

Section 9. (a) This compact shall become effective and binding on the earlier of the date of legislative enactment of this compact into law by not less than 26 states or December 31, 2018. All party states to this compact that were also were parties to the prior Nurse Licensure C…