New York S 5657: Enacts the interstate medical licensure compact

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S05657 Summary:

BILL NOS05657 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01983

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 169 §§8860 - 8884, Ed L

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Enacts the interstate medical licensure compact; provides a streamlined pathway for medical professionals who are licensed in multiple states to obtain medical licensure in New York.

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BILL NOS05657 

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02/26/2025REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5657

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 26, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the inter-
 state medical licensure compact

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 169 to
 2 read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 169
 4 INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT
 5 Section 8860. Short title.
 6 8861. Purpose.
 7 8862. Definitions.
 8 8863. Eligibility.
 9 8864. Designation of state of principal license.
 10 8865. Application and issuance of expedited licensure.
 11 8866. Fees for expedited licensure.
 12 8867. Renewal and continued participation.
 13 8868. Coordinated information system.
 14 8869. Joint investigations.
 15 8870. Disciplinary actions.
 16 8871. Interstate medical licensure compact commission.
 17 8872. Powers and duties of the interstate commission.
 18 8873. Finance powers.
 19 8874. Organization and operation of the interstate commission.
 20 8875. Rulemaking functions of the interstate commission.
 21 8876. Oversight of interstate compact.
 22 8877. Enforcement of interstate compact.
 23 8878. Default procedures.
 24 8879. Dispute resolution.
 25 8880. Member states, effective date and amendment.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05298-01-5

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 1 8881. Withdrawal.
 2 8882. Dissolution.
 3 8883. Severability and construction.
 4 8884. Binding effect of compact and other laws.
 5 § 8860. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as
 6 the "interstate medical licensure compact".
 7 § 8861. Purpose. In order to strengthen access to health care, and in
 8 recognition of the advances in the delivery of health care, the member
 9 states of the interstate medical licensure compact have allied in common
 10 purpose to develop a comprehensive process that complements the existing
 11 licensing and regulatory authority of state medical boards, provides a
 12 streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in multi-
 13 ple states, thereby enhancing the portability of a medical license and
 14 ensuring the safety of patients. The compact creates another pathway
 15 for licensure and does not otherwise change a state's existing medical
 16 practice act. The compact also adopts the prevailing standard for licen-
 17 sure and affirms that the practice of medicine occurs where the patient
 18 is located at the time of the physician-patient encounter, and there-
 19 fore, requires the physician to be under the jurisdiction of the state
 20 medical board where the patient is located. State medical boards that
 21 participate in the compact retain the jurisdiction to impose an adverse
 22 action against a license to practice medicine in that state issued to a
 23 physician through the procedures in the compact.
 24 § 8862. Definitions. In this compact:
 25 1. "Bylaws" means those bylaws established by the interstate commis-
 26 sion pursuant to section eighty-eight hundred seventy-one of this arti-
 27 cle for its governance, or for directing and controlling its actions and
 28 conduct.
 29 2. "Commissioner" means the voting representative appointed by each
 30 member board pursuant to section eighty-eight hundred seventy-one of
 31 this article.
 32 3. "Conviction" means a finding by a court that an individual is guil-