Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 18.80 · 12 active provisions
(1) The legislature finds that:(a) The health and safety of the public are affected by the degree of compliance with and the effectiveness of enforcement activities related to state nurse licensure laws;(b) Violations of nurse licensure and other laws regulating the practice of nursing may result in injury or harm to t…
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Adverse action" means any administrative, civil, equitable, or criminal action permitted by a state's laws which is imposed by a licensing board or other authority against a nurse, including actions against…
(1) A multistate license to practice registered or licensed practical or vocational nursing issued by a home state to a resident in that state will be recognized by each party state as authorizing a nurse to practice as a registered nurse, or licensed practical or vocational nurse, under a multistate licensure privileg…
(1) Upon application for a multistate license, the licensing board in the issuing party state shall ascertain, through the coordinated licensure information system, whether the applicant has ever held, or is the holder of, a license issued by any other state, whether there are any encumbrances on any license or multist…
(1) In addition to the other powers conferred by state law, a licensing board shall have the authority to:(a) Take adverse action against a nurse's multistate licensure privilege to practice within that party state.(i) Only the home state shall have the power to take adverse action against a nurse's license issued by t…
(1) All party states shall participate in a coordinated licensure information system of all licensed registered nurses, and licensed practical or vocational nurses. This system will include information on the licensure and disciplinary history of each nurse, as submitted by party states, to assist in the coordination o…
(1) The party states hereby create and establish a joint public entity known as the interstate commission of nurse licensure compact administrators.(a) The interstate commission is an instrumentality of the party states.(b) Venue is proper, and judicial proceedings by or against the interstate commission shall be broug…
(1) The interstate commission shall exercise its rule-making powers pursuant to the criteria set forth in this section and the rules adopted thereunder. Rules and amendments shall become binding as of the date specified in each rule or amendment and shall have the same force and effect as provisions of this compact.(2)…
(1) Each party state shall enforce this compact and take all actions necessary and appropriate to effectuate this compact's purposes and intent.(2) The interstate commission shall be entitled to receive service of process in any proceeding that may affect the powers, responsibilities, or actions of the interstate commi…
(1) This compact shall become effective and binding on the earlier of the date of legislative enactment of this compact into law by no less than twenty-six states or December 31, 2018. All party states to this compact, that also were parties to the prior nurse licensure compact, superseded by this compact, shall be dee…
This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the Constitution of any party state or of the United States, or if the applicability ther…
This act shall be known and cited as the interstate nurse licensure compact of 2023.