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OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Entered into compacts. So I think you're, Mr. President.
- , and that there is another compact, and that the Oklahoma board is trying to meet and hash out a compact
- I'm not privy to the other compact.
- in the compact.
- I think compacts can have some benefits. I think this compact has a lot of issues.
Keywords:
dentist, dental hygienist, dentistry, dental hygiene, licensure compact, interstate compact, professional licensing, license portability, health workforce, workforce shortage, mobility, compact privilege, state licensing board, public health, public safety, military spouse, telehealth dentistry, reciprocity, Title 59, occupational licensing
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- And I'm anticipating we'll be taking a look at the compacts that were passed out of House Health and
Committee:
House House Judiciary
Keywords:
interstate medical licensure compact, physician licensure, medical license reciprocity, expedited licensure, medical practice act, New Mexico medical board, compact commission, physician mobility, telemedicine, license portability, background check, disciplinary action, joint investigation, reproductive health care, gender-affirming care, scope of practice, medical board transparency, multistate compact, licensure renewal, health care workforce
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- compact.
- compact.
- We're supportive of this compact and all the compacts.
- Issuing licenses, of course, are the nursing compact, the medical compact, the physical therapy compact
- You have to pay that license, and you pay the compact to join the compact.
Committees:
Senate Senate Judiciary , Senate House Judiciary
Keywords:
interstate medical licensure compact, physician licensure, medical license reciprocity, expedited licensure, medical practice act, New Mexico medical board, compact commission, physician mobility, telemedicine, license portability, background check, disciplinary action, joint investigation, reproductive health care, gender-affirming care, scope of practice, medical board transparency, multistate compact, licensure renewal, health care workforce
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Mar 19th, 2025
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Committee:
House Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Keywords:
athlete agents, commission, state regulation, Alabama, higher education, athletics, membership diversity, school psychologist, school psychology, interstate compact, licensure compact, license reciprocity, portable license, equivalent license, professional licensing, psychology board, school mental health, student services, educational services, interstate practice
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- That was established by a compact between the states in 1922 and subsequent agreements about delivery
Keywords:
stormwater, recharge mapping, water resources, groundwater, appropriation, Arizona, HB2116, Colorado River, litigation fund, water rights, Arizona water law, general fund appropriation, state budget, interstate water compact, Colorado River Compact, water litigation, A.R.S. 45-119, natural resources, water policy, river management
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/10/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Appropriations, Transportation and Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a contract called a compact, and it obligates the upper basin states to forward X amount of water
Keywords:
driver education, instruction permit, underage drivers, motorcycle licenses, traffic regulations, corrections oversight, appropriation, independent office, public safety, funding, driver license, examinations, motorcycle awareness, traffic laws, HB2116, Colorado River, litigation fund, water rights, Arizona water law, general fund appropriation
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Feb 4th, 2026
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
Transcript Highlights:
- Okay, so licensure compacts are enacted by states, and they form what's called a compact commission to
- administer the compact.
- But, you know, again, as we've heard, like one interstate compact, you've only seen one interstate compact
- State policies enacting interstate licensure compacts, such as the cosmetology compact, relieve one of
- State policies enacting interstate licensure compacts such as the cosmetology compact relieve one of
Keywords:
cosmetology, cosmetologist, beauty industry, hairdresser, esthetician, salon, licensure compact, interstate compact, multistate license, license reciprocity, professional licensure, occupational licensing, workforce mobility, license portability, military spouse, military family, background check, disciplinary action, scope of practice, consumer protection
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/28/2026 - Senate Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency
Regulatory Affairs and Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- physician assistants in participating states to obtain licensure in other compact states via a compact
- The compact outlines requirements.
- The compact outlines requirements for state inclusion in the compact as well as terms for maintaining
- the compact privilege.
- The compact is enacted upon the seventh member to enact the compact, which has already occurred.
Keywords:
scrap metal theft, study committee, Arizona, regulated industries, public safety, underground utilities, utility locating, dig safe, call before you dig, excavation safety, damage prevention, one-call center, locate request, white lining, large project coordination, buried infrastructure, subsurface utilities, utility marking, locator wire, locator strip
AL
Committee:
Senate Healthcare
Keywords:
HB128, Alabama Board of Nursing, Sunset Law, sunset review, nursing board, nurse licensure, registered nurse, RN, licensed practical nurse, LPN, advanced practice nursing, certified registered nurse anesthetist, CRNA, consumer member, board appointments, congressional districts, geographic representation, nursing regulation, nursing education programs, licensure compact
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Jan 14th, 2026
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Committee:
House Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Keywords:
early voting, electoral participation, voting centers, Alabama elections, absentee ballot, HB128, Alabama Board of Nursing, Sunset Law, sunset review, nursing board, nurse licensure, registered nurse, RN, licensed practical nurse, LPN, advanced practice nursing, certified registered nurse anesthetist, CRNA, consumer member, board appointments
AZ
Keywords:
water conservation, grants, infrastructure, environmental protection, sustainability, cesspool remediation, cesspool replacement, forgivable principal, forgivable loan, wifa, water infrastructure finance authority, clean water revolving fund, drinking water revolving fund, wastewater infrastructure, on-site wastewater system, septic system, groundwater protection, public health, nonpoint source pollution, county water projects
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Business REVISED: SB1873 - Link added Mar 31st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Business
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate Bill 540 establishes a framework for Oklahoma to participate in a dentist and dental hygienist compact
- Just like my good friend and colleague before me, this is a compacting licensure act for occupational
- To practice instead of Oklahoma as a member state, to date, we've got 31 states as a part of this compact
Committee:
House Business
Keywords:
roofing, contractor registration, continuing education, endorsement, construction industry, fireworks, consumer safety, local governance, emergency declaration, public safety, dentist, dental hygienist, dentistry, dental hygiene, licensure compact, interstate compact, professional licensing, license portability, health workforce, workforce shortage
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce Jan 13th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Postsecondary Education & Workforce
Transcript Highlights:
- A compact commission made up of participating states is established to administer the compact.
- . a compact privilege.
- A compact commission made up of participating states is established to administer the compact.
- that have come before them, including the mental health counseling compact, occupational therapy compact
- And this compact is similar in form and function to the other occupational licensing compacts already
Bills:
HB2088
Committee:
House Postsecondary Education & Workforce
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Health and Public Affairs Feb 13th, 2026 at 04:01 pm
Senate Health & Public Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- We are opposed to any amendment to the compact unless the Compact Commission itself signs off on the
- work compact.
- Included in the social work compact.
- So on these compacts, Senator Hickey or Representative Thompson, if a New Mexican is using this compact
- of the laws surrounding the compact, so to speak... ...the law surrounding the compact, so to speak,
Committee:
Senate Senate Health & Public Affairs
Keywords:
physician assistants, interstate compact, medical services, licensure, cross-state practice, military families, regulatory authority, physical therapy, licensure compact, interstate practice, healthcare, military spouses, criminal background check, HB34, school nurse, school nurses, nurse licensure, charter school, charter schools, school district
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/13/2026 - House Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Natural Resources, Energy & Water
Transcript Highlights:
- They get six acre-feet in their compact?” “Okay. Any other questions?” “Madam Chair.” “Yes.”
- “They had a compact.” “They had a compact that they can’t pump any more than six acre-feet.
- “Oh, Madam Chair, just as a follow-up, so the Graham and Greenlee compact—I do, I—they’re restricted
Committees:
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water , House House Natural Resources, Energy & Water Committee of Reference
Keywords:
water infrastructure finance authority, WIFA, water supply development, snowpack augmentation, cloud seeding, water augmentation, water financing, water infrastructure, Arizona water law, water conservation, groundwater recharge, stormwater recharge, reclamation and reuse, water rights, water supply projects, public-private partnership, long-term water augmentation fund, water provider, desalination, drought mitigation
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Business, Trade & Economic Development Jan 22nd, 2026 at 08:00 am
Business, Trade & Economic Development
Keywords:
tourism, self-supported assessment, funding, statewide promotion, economic development, storage rental, tenancy agreements, tenant rights, landlord obligations, termination notice, insurance, wildfire prevention, policy nonrenewal, cancellation, risk management, sports wagering, sports betting, sports gambling, bookmaking, gambling regulation
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- among compacting states.
- Uh, the bill does not change the purpose of the compact.
- Um, Last session, we passed SB 1403, which established the Interstate Compact on Border Security.
- This bill is, uh, HB 176 and it updates the compact that was already created between states. Um.
- Absolutely, and I think that was the purpose of the compact originally.
Committee:
House S/C on State-Federal Relations
Keywords:
tax, ad valorem, voter-approval, local government finance, property tax, repeal, tax rates, school finance, tax reduction, compressed tax rate, education, funding, HB 176, Texas border security, interstate compact, Government Code Chapter 794, Texas-Mexico border, border enforcement, immigration enforcement, ICE 287(g)
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- This is another of the compact bills that we do in our state, and there's a great deal of work being
- done to try to standardize the compact process to make...
- Standardize the compact process to make it so that each time we have something of this nature come up
- What happened during the process, and this is about respiratory therapists for an interstate compact.
- Therapists for an interstate compact in relation to them.
Committee:
House Health
Keywords:
food enrichment, corn masa, health regulations, nutritional standards, folic acid, respiratory therapy, interstate compact, public health, licensure, workforce mobility, military families, adverse actions, streamlined practice, traffic offenses, blood testing, law enforcement, chemical analysis, DUI
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Jan 21st, 2026
Finance and Taxation General Fund
Committee:
Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund
Keywords:
school psychologist, school psychology, interstate compact, licensure compact, license reciprocity, portable license, equivalent license, professional licensing, psychology board, school mental health, student services, educational services, interstate practice, reciprocal licensing, background check, continuing education, workforce shortage, military spouse, active duty military, compact commission
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government & Tribal Relations Feb 24th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
State Government & Tribal Relations
Committee:
House State Government & Tribal Relations
Keywords:
state nickname, evergreen state, identity, cultural heritage, tourism, state cactus, symbolic designation, ecological significance, state symbols, SB 6044, Diwali, Bandi Chhor Divas, Washington state holidays, RCW 1.16.050, state holiday recognition, religious observance, Hindu holiday, Sikh holiday, cultural recognition, paid holiday