SB102 Alabama 2021 Session

This bill would establish the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT).

This bill would allow day-to-day psychological practice using telecommunication technologies by licensed psychologists among compact states.

This bill would allow temporary in-person, face-to-face practice of psychology by licensed psychologists for no more than 30 days per year among compact states.

This bill would authorize state psychology regulatory authorities in compact states, which would include the Alabama Board of Examiners in Psychology, to legally recognize, in a manner consistent with terms of the compact, psychologists licensed within those states.

This bill would provide eligibility requirements for licensed psychologists to practice pursuant to the compact.

This bill would provide for a coordinated licensure information system, investigations, and disciplinary actions.

This bill would establish the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission, and would provide for membership, powers, and duties.

This bill would also provide for rulemaking functions of the commission, oversight of the compact, enforcement of the compact, default procedures, dispute resolution, withdrawal of compact states, and dissolution of the compact.

Relating to the licensed practice of psychology; to provide and adopt the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact to allow licensed psychologists to practice among compact states in a limited manner; to provide eligibility requirements for licensed psychologists to practice pursuant to the compact; to provide for a coordinated licensure information system, joint investigations, and disciplinary actions; to establish the Psychology Interjurisdictional 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, default procedures, dispute resolution, withdrawal of compact states, and dissolution of the compact.