SB130 Alabama 2021 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact, established to authorize licensees to practice among compact member states

Description

<p class="bill_description"> This bill would establish the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would allow interstate practice by licensed audiologists and speech-language therapists 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, audiologists and speech-language therapists licensed within those states</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would allow a remote state to hold an audiologist or speech-language therapist with compact privilege to provide services in that state accountable under that state's practice standards</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide eligibility requirements for licensed audiologists and speech-language therapists 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 Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Compact Commission and would provide for membership, powers, and duties</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also provide for rulemaking authority of the commission, enforcement of the compact, dispute resolution, and withdrawal of party states</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to the practice of audiology and speech-language pathology; to provide and adopt the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact to allow interstate practice by licensed audiologists and speech-language therapists among party states; to authorize regulatory authorities in party states to legally recognize, in a manner consistent with terms of the compact, audiologists and speech-language therapists licensed within those states; to authorize regulatory authorities in party states to legally recognize, in a manner consistent with terms of the compact, audiologists and speech-language therapists licensed within those states; to provide eligibility requirements for licensed audiologists and speech-language therapists to practice pursuant to the compact; to provide for a coordinated database and reporting system; to provide for investigations and disciplinary actions; to establish the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Compact Commission and provide for membership, powers, and duties, including rulemaking authority; and to provide for enforcement of the compact, dispute resolution, and withdrawal of party states. </p>

Subjects

Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Board of Examiners for