Enacts new Article 18J, Physician Assistant Licensure Compact (PA Compact), to GS Chapter 90. States the purpose of the PA Compact and sets forth 22 defined terms, including adverse action (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 PA License or license application or compact privilege such as license denial, censure, revocation, suspension, probation, monitoring of the licensee, or restriction on the licensee's practice), qualifying license (an unrestricted license issued by a participating state to provide medical services as a PA), remote state (a participating state where a licensee who’s not licensed is seeking to exercise compact privileges), and significant investigative information (investigative information that a licensing board, after an inquiry or investigation that includes notification and an opportunity for the PA to respond if required by state law, has reason to believe is not groundless and, if proven true, would indicate more than a minor infraction).

Statutes affected:
Filed: 90-9.3
Edition 1: 90-9.3