HB247 Alabama 2021 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Physical Therapy Licensure Compact, established to authorize licensed physical therapists and assistant to practice among compact member states

Description

<p class="bill_description"> This bill would establish the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would allow interstate practice by licensed physical therapists and physical therapist assistants among party states</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would authorize regulatory authorities in party states to legally recognize, in a manner consistent with terms of the compact, physical therapists and physical therapist assistants licensed within those states</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would allow a remote state to hold a provider of physical therapy services with a compact privilege in that state accountable under that state's practice standards</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide eligibility requirements for licensed physical therapists and physical therapist assistants to practice pursuant to the compact</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide for a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse action, and investigative information on licensees</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide for investigations and disciplinary actions</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would establish the Physical Therapy Compact Commission and would provide for membership, powers, and duties</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also provide for rulemaking functions of the commission, enforcement of the compact, dispute resolution, and withdrawal of party states</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to the licensed practice of physical therapy; to provide and adopt the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact to allow interstate practice by licensed physical therapists and physical therapist assistants among party states; to authorize regulatory authorities in party states to legally recognize, in a manner consistent with terms of the compact, physical therapists and physical therapist assistants licensed within those states; to provide eligibility requirements for licensed physical therapists and physical therapist assistants to practice pursuant to the compact; to provide for a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse action, and investigative information on licensees; to provide for investigations and disciplinary actions; to establish the Physical Therapy Compact Commission, and to provide for membership, powers, and duties, and provide for rulemaking functions of the commission; and to provide for oversight of the compact, enforcement of the compact, dispute resolution, and withdrawal of party states. </p>

Subjects

Physical Therapists