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H.325 1
Introduced by Representative Berbeco of Winooski 2
Referred to Committee on 3
Date: 4
Subject: Health; professional regulation; education; school psychologists; 5
School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact 6
Statement of purpose of bill as introduced: This bill proposes that the State 7
adopt and enter into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact. 8
An act relating to Vermont’s adoption of the School Psychologist Interstate 9
Licensure Compact 10
It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: 11
Sec. 1. 26 V.S.A. chapter 55, subchapter 3 is added to read: 12
Subchapter 3. School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact 13
§ 3041a. SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST INTERSTATE LICENSURE 14
COMPACT; ADOPTION 15
This subchapter is the Vermont adoption of the School Psychologist 16
Interstate Licensure Compact. The form, format, and text of the Compact have 17
been conformed to the conventions of the Vermont Statutes Annotated. It is 18
the intent of the General Assembly that this subchapter be interpreted as 19

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substantively the same as the School psychologist Interstate Licensure 1
Compact that is enacted by other compact party states. 2
§ 3041b. PURPOSE 3
The purpose of this compact is to facilitate the interstate practice of 4
school psychology in educational or school settings and, in so doing, to 5
improve the availability of school psychological services to the public. 6
This compact is intended to establish a pathway to allow school 7
psychologists to obtain equivalent licenses to provide school psychological 8
services in any member state. In this way, this compact shall enable the 9
member states to ensure that safe and effective school psychological 10
services are available and delivered by appropriately qualified 11
professionals in their educational settings. To facilitate the objectives 12
described in this section, this compact: 13
(1) enables school psychologists who qualify for receipt of an 14
equivalent license to practice in other member states without first 15
satisfying burdensome and duplicative requirements; 16
(2) promotes the mobility of school psychologists between and 17
among the member states in order to address workforce shortages and to 18
ensure that safe and reliable school psychological services are available in 19
each member state; 20
(3) enhances the public accessibility of school psychological 21

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services by increasing the availability of qualified, licensed school 1
psychologists through the establishment of an efficient and streamlined 2
pathway for licensees to practice in other member states; 3
(4) preserves and respects the authority of each member state to 4
protect the health and safety of its residents by ensuring that only qualified, 5
licensed professionals are authorized to provide school psychological 6
services within that state; 7
(5) requires school psychologists practicing within a member state 8
to comply with the scope of practice laws present in the state where the 9
school psychological services are being provided; 10
(6) promotes cooperation between the member states in regulating 11
the practice of school psychology within those states; and 12
(7) facilitates the relocation of military members and their spouses 13
who are licensed to provide school psychological services. 14
§ 3041c. DEFINITIONS 15
As used in this subchapter: 16
(1) “Active military member” means any person with full-time duty 17
status in the armed forces of the United States, including members of the 18
National Guard and Reserve. 19
(2) “Adverse action” means disciplinary action or encumbrance imposed 20
on a license by a state licensing authority. 21

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(3) “Alternative program” means a non-disciplinary, prosecutorial 1
diversion, monitoring, or practice remediation process entered into in lieu of an 2
adverse action which is applicable to a school psychologist and approved by 3
the state licensing authority of a member state in which the participating school 4
psychologist is licensed. This includes, but is not limited to, programs to 5
which licensees with substance abuse or addiction issues may be referred in 6
lieu of an adverse action. 7
(4) “Commissioner” means the individual appointed by a member state 8
to serve as the representative to the Commission for that member state. 9
(5) “Compact” means this School Psychologist Interstate Licensure 10
Compact. 11
(6) “Continuing professional education” means a requirement, imposed 12
by a member state as a condition of license renewal to provide evidence of 13
successful participation in professional educational activities relevant to the 14
provision of school psychological services 15
(7) “Criminal background check” means the submission of finge