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HB 2069

Enacting the school psychologist compact, the dietitian compact, the cosmetology compact and the physicians assistant compact to provide interstate practice privileges.

2025-2026 Regular Session

HB 2069 creates multistate licensure compacts (School Psychologist and Dietitian, with others) allowing equivalent licenses across member states to improve professional mobility.

Reengrossed on Monday, March 31, 2025
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Bill Summary · HB 2069

HB 2069 — Summary (Enacted April 8, 2025)

Short version
HB 2069 enacts interstate licensure compacts for health- and personal-care professions — specifically the School Psychologist Compact and the Dietitian Compact (and, in the enrolled version, additional compacts for cosmetology and physician assistants). The compacts create multistate pathways for licensed practitioners to obtain “equivalent” licenses to practice in other member states, establish interstate commissions to administer each compact, enable information-sharing and discipline coordination, and provide special portability rules for military members and their spouses.

Purpose and intent

  • Improve availability and mobility of licensed professionals across state lines to address workforce shortages and increase access to services in school and health settings.
  • Reduce duplicative licensure barriers while preserving each state’s authority to define scope of practice and take disciplinary action.

Key provisions (School Psychologist Compact — detailed in bill)

  • Eligibility requirements for a home-state license include:
    • Passing a qualifying national exam (as defined by the Compact Commission);
    • Completing at least 1,200 hours of supervised internship, including at least 600 hours in a school prior to initial licensure; and
    • Graduation from a qualifying school psychologist education program.
  • Equivalent licenses: A licensee whose home state is a Compact member may obtain an equivalent license to practice in other member states while complying with the remote state’s scope-of-practice laws.
  • Renewal and background checks: Equivalent licensees must maintain a home-state license, submit to criminal background checks, pay fees, and follow renewal procedures set by licensing authorities.
  • Military portability: Active-duty members and spouses may hold a home-state license in their permanent residence, primary state of practice, or where relocated by permanent change of station (PCS).
  • Discipline & data exchange: Member states retain investigative and disciplinary authority; the Commission facilitates sharing of licensure data, adverse actions, denials, and non‑confidential alternative program information among states.
  • Commission governance and finance: Establishes a School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact Commission (a joint governmental agency) with rulemaking authority, ability to levy member‑state assessments and licensee fees, and immunities/indemnities for Commission personnel (excluding willful misconduct). Rules may be disapproved by a majority of state legislatures within four years.
  • Effective date: Each compact becomes operative only after enactment by the seventh member state.

Other compacts

  • Dietitian Compact: Enacted language and structure mirror the school psychologist approach (requires seven states to activate); as of early 2025 the dietitian compact had been enacted in several states and was under consideration in others.
  • Cosmetology and Physician Assistant compacts: The enrolled bill includes these compacts as well; the enrolled text establishes multistate licensure pathways and interstate commissions for those professions (specific compact text not detailed in committee reports supplied).

Who is affected

  • Licensees: school psychologists, dietitians, cosmetologists, physician assistants (once their compacts are enacted by eligible member states).
  • State licensing authorities and boards: will implement compact rules, participate in the interstate Commission, share licensure data, and adjudicate discipline.
  • Employers / schools and patients/clients: increased access to out‑of‑state practitioners; schools may be affected by any change to when practicum hours may be completed (see Fiscal Note).
  • Military members and spouses: greater ease in maintaining/using professional credentials after relocation.

Fiscal and operational impacts

  • Commission operations are funded by member‑state assessments and licensee fees; costs for state agencies are expected to be covered within existing budgets in some cases (fiscal note: Dept. of Education anticipated negligible rule‑change costs).
  • The school psychologist compact’s requirement that practicum be completed before school employment may temporarily reduce the available pool of new practitioners; fiscal effects on districts were not quantified.

Procedural / timeline highlights

  • Passed through multiple committee stages and conference committees during early 2025.
  • Enrolled and presented to the Governor on April 4, 2025; approved by the Governor on April 8, 2025.
  • Compact provisions specific to each profession take effect only after each compact is enacted by the required number of states (commonly seven) and when the Commission is formed and operational.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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