Summary of Original Version

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 319 to enact and enter into the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; allow a psychologist to hold one or more compact state licenses at a time; recognize the right of a psychologist licensed in the compact to practice telepsychology in other compact states where the psychologist is not licensed; establish conditions under which a psychologist licensed to practice in a compact state can practice telepsychology; establish the conditions under which a psychologist licensed to practice in a compact state may be granted a temporary authorization to practice; authorize a home state to take adverse action against a psychologist's license issued by the home state; allow a receiving state to take adverse action on a psychologist's authority to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology within that receiving state; authorize a compact state's ability to issue subpoenas for hearings and investigation as well as cease and desist and injunctive relief orders to revoke a psychologist's authority to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology and temporary authorization to practice; establish the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission; require the commission to provide for and maintain a Coordinated Licensure Information System (Coordinated Database) and reporting system containing licensure and disciplinary action information on psychologists participating in the compact; provide immunity for members, officers, executive director, employees and representatives of the commission who act in accordance with the provisions of the compact; authorize the commission to establish rulemaking procedures; authorize the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of state government to enforce the provisions of the compact; affirm that rules promulgated will have standing as statutory law; require provisions of the compact to become effective on the date the compact is enacted into law in the seventh compact state.

Summary of Amendment: Senate Committee Substitute 1

Summary Retain original provisions, except require the privilege to practice psychology in any member state by a licensee to be suspended if he or she changes residences from a member state to a state that is not a part of the compact; allow a member state to recover the costs of investigations and disposition of cases resulting from adverse action taken against a psychologist; require the administrator of the data system to notify any remote states the licensee has the privilege to practice; prohibit the commission from changing laws that define the practice of psychology of a member state; if not a closed meeting, require all minutes, documents, and recordings of meetings to be made available to members of the public upon request at the requestor's expense; and give the board 60 days to review a rule adopted by the commission for the purpose of filing the rule as an emergency administrative regulation.