Summary of Original Version

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 334A.010 to enact and enter into the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; establish definitions; recognize a multistate licensure privilege to practice for audiologists and speech-language pathologists; recognize a multistate licensure privilege for audiologists and speech-language pathologists to practice audiology and speech-language pathology via telehealth; establish provisions for active duty military personnel and their spouses; authorize a remote state to take adverse action against an audiologist or speech-language pathologist's privilege to practice within that member state; authorize a home state to take adverse action against an audiologist's or speech-language pathologist's license issued by the home state; create the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Compact Commission; provide immunity for party states, officers, employees, or representatives of the Commission who act in accordance with the compact; require the Commission to create a database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse actions, and investigative information on all licensed individuals in member states; establish procedures for rulemaking; authorize the Commission to attempt to resolve disputes related to the compact that arise among member states and between member and non-member states; require provisions of the compact to become effective the day it is enacted into law once a state enters the Compact; provide for severability for any provision in the compact that is contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance.

Summary of Amendment: Senate Committee Substitute 1

Summary Retain original provisions, except require the privilege to practice audiology and speech-language pathology 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 an audiologist or speech-language pathologist; 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 audiology and speech-language pathology 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.