{
  "dataset": "Nurse Licensure Compact adopting statutes, by jurisdiction",
  "publisher": "CompactStates.com",
  "url": "https://www.compactstates.com/nurse-licensure-compact-statutes",
  "license": "Free to use with attribution to https://www.compactstates.com",
  "citation": "CompactStates.com, NLC Compact Statutes by Jurisdiction, reviewed 2026-07-31, https://www.compactstates.com/nurse-licensure-compact-statutes",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-07-31",
  "disclaimer": "Not an official source, and not legal advice. Statutory citations are unusually stable but do change; confirm against the linked code.",
  "fieldDefinitions": {
    "statuteStatus": "\"cited\" = read off the jurisdiction's own code or legislature. \"unverified\" = the compact IS adopted but the codifying section is unconfirmed. \"no_compact_law\" = the jurisdiction has not adopted the compact, which is a finding rather than a gap.",
    "citation": "Null unless statuteStatus is \"cited\". Never inferred from a neighbouring state.",
    "supersedesEarlierCompact": "True where this jurisdiction replaced an earlier compact with the enhanced one, so pre-changeover citations point at repealed law. Several of those repealed sections still resolve and still render like current law.",
    "note": "Free-text research note on the citation's history or scope, where one exists."
  },
  "summary": {
    "jurisdictions": 56,
    "withCompactLaw": 43,
    "cited": 41,
    "unverified": 2,
    "noCompactLaw": 13,
    "unverifiedJurisdictions": [
      "Tennessee",
      "U.S. Virgin Islands"
    ],
    "supersedingJurisdictions": [
      "Arizona",
      "Arkansas",
      "Colorado",
      "Georgia",
      "Mississippi",
      "North Carolina",
      "Utah"
    ]
  },
  "records": [
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Alabama",
      "abbreviation": "AL",
      "slug": "alabama",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Code of Alabama 1975, tit. 34, ch. 21 — Nurse Licensure Compact provisions (incl. §§ 34-21-123, 34-21-126 to 34-21-130)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.abn.alabama.gov/legal/nurse-licensure-compact/",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Cited to the sections actually confirmed rather than to a guessed article range — Alabama’s board publishes the Nurse Practice Act split across article PDFs, so the compact’s exact opening section is not stated anywhere we could read it. Board authority overall runs §§ 34-21-1 to 34-21-155. Multistate licensure became available here on 1 January 2020, later than most, and Alabama sets a 60-day window for a new Alabama resident holding another state’s multistate license to apply here — the deadline that catches people after a move.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/alabama"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Alaska",
      "abbreviation": "AK",
      "slug": "alaska",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/alaska"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "American Samoa",
      "abbreviation": "AS",
      "slug": "american-samoa",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/american-samoa"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Arizona",
      "abbreviation": "AZ",
      "slug": "arizona",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "A.R.S. tit. 32, ch. 15, art. 2.1 (§§ 32-1660 to 32-1660.03) — Nurse Licensure Compact",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.azleg.gov/viewdocument/?docName=https://www.azleg.gov/ars/32/01660.htm",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": true,
      "note": "Confirmed at section level from the Arizona Legislature’s own text: § 32-1660 is headed \"Nurse Licensure Compact\" and opens \"The nurse licensure compact is adopted and enacted into law as follows:\". This replaces A.R.S. §§ 32-1668 and 32-1669, which were REPEALED when Arizona moved to the enhanced compact — those sections still surface in search results and on third-party mirrors, and citing them is the specific error this dataset exists to avoid. Which version of the compact text sits in art. 2.1 is not recorded here, because both versions carry the same heading and we have not read the uniform-requirements provisions; Arizona’s membership status is tracked separately and does not rest on that question.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/arizona"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Arkansas",
      "abbreviation": "AR",
      "slug": "arkansas",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Ark. Code Ann. §§ 17-87-601 to 17-87-604 (Nurse Practice Act, subch. 6 — Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://healthy.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/NPAafter2025legislation.Subchapter6.pdf",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": true,
      "note": "Read from the Arkansas Department of Health’s own compiled Nurse Practice Act, which is published split by subchapter — subchapter 6 IS the compact, and contains exactly these four sections. The board’s compact page is not the source: it describes the 1999 original and the 2017 replacement in prose and cites no code section at all. Arkansas ran the original compact from 2000 and adopted the enhanced one in 2017, so an Arkansas citation predating that changeover is describing superseded law.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/arkansas"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "California",
      "abbreviation": "CA",
      "slug": "california",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/california"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Colorado",
      "abbreviation": "CO",
      "slug": "colorado",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "SB 18-027, Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (2018); codified within C.R.S. tit. 12, art. 255",
      "sourceUrl": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-027",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": true,
      "note": "Cited to the enacting act rather than a code section, deliberately. Colorado’s code browser and its mirrors both refuse automated access, so the section-level citation within art. 255 is NOT confirmed here — and Colorado is a state where guessing already produced a wrong answer once. What the bill does establish is the important part: SB 18-027 repealed the earlier Nurse Licensure Compact and adopted the ENHANCED compact in its place. So any older Colorado compact citation, including one that still resolves, is pointing at repealed law — the same trap Arizona and Utah set.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/colorado"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Connecticut",
      "abbreviation": "CT",
      "slug": "connecticut",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Conn. Public Act 24-83 (House Bill 5058)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/2024/ACT/PA/PDF/2024PA-00083-R00HB-05058-PA.PDF",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Signed 30 May 2024; Connecticut was the 42nd jurisdiction to enact the compact and implemented it on 1 October 2025.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/connecticut"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Delaware",
      "abbreviation": "DE",
      "slug": "delaware",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Del. Code tit. 24, ch. 19A (Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/title24/c019a/index.html",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Delaware keeps the compact out of the nursing chapter entirely: ch. 19 is Nursing, ch. 19A is the Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact, and ch. 19B is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact. The APRN chapter is worth reading carefully — its heading in the code is qualified “[Effective upon …]”, so Delaware has enacted APRN compact law that is contingent rather than in force. That is primary-source confirmation of the general point: a state having APRN compact language on its books does not mean an APRN multistate license exists there.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/delaware"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "District of Columbia",
      "abbreviation": "DC",
      "slug": "district-of-columbia",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/district-of-columbia"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Florida",
      "abbreviation": "FL",
      "slug": "florida",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Fla. Stat. § 464.0095",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/464.0095",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "The compact text is codified as a single section within the nursing chapter.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/florida"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Georgia",
      "abbreviation": "GA",
      "slug": "georgia",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "O.C.G.A. tit. 43, ch. 26, art. 4 (multistate licensure / Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://gov.georgia.gov/document/signed-legislation/sb-168pdf/download",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": true,
      "note": "Located at ARTICLE level from Georgia’s own signed legislation: SB 168 (2019) refers throughout to nurses \"holding a multistate license pursuant to Article 4 of Chapter 26 of Title 43\". The section range inside that article is deliberately NOT claimed — the Secretary of State’s Nurse Practice Act PDF and its compact page both refuse automated access, and the General Assembly’s site did not resolve, so a section-level citation here would be inference rather than research. Note also that SB 168’s own caption states it repeals \"a provision relating to the Nurse Licensure Compact\"; which provision is not confirmed, so treat an older Georgia compact citation as suspect rather than authoritative — the same trap Arizona, Colorado and Utah set.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/georgia"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Guam",
      "abbreviation": "GU",
      "slug": "guam",
      "compactStatus": "partial",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "10 GCA ch. 12, art. 3A (Nurse Licensure Compact); added by P.L. 36-006:1 (5 March 2021)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://guamhplo.org/sites/default/files/10_gca_art._3a_-_nurse_licensure_compact_2022-01-11_0.pdf",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Read off the compiled article published by Guam’s own Health Professional Licensing Office, headed “10 GCA Health and Safety, Ch. 12 Medical Practices” and sourced to P.L. 36-006:1. Guam did something almost no other jurisdiction did: it legislated ONGOING MEASUREMENT of the compact alongside joining it. P.L. 36-006 requires the Board of Nurse Examiners to report quarterly to the licensing office how many nurses hold a multistate license issued by Guam and how many licensed by other compact jurisdictions are working here, and to file an annual fiscal impact report on licensure fee revenue and operating costs with the Speaker. Most compact statutes are silent on what joining costs or achieves.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/guam"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Hawaii",
      "abbreviation": "HI",
      "slug": "hawaii",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/hawaii"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Idaho",
      "abbreviation": "ID",
      "slug": "idaho",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Idaho Code § 54-1418 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title54/t54ch14/sect54-1418/",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Idaho keeps the compact in its own section near the end of the nursing chapter, and the section immediately after it — § 54-1419 — is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact. Idaho is the second jurisdiction in this survey, after Iowa, to have legislated for both. As with Iowa, that means Idaho has passed APRN compact law, not that APRN privilege is available; the two compacts are separate instruments with separate activation.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/idaho"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Illinois",
      "abbreviation": "IL",
      "slug": "illinois",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/illinois"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Indiana",
      "abbreviation": "IN",
      "slug": "indiana",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Ind. Code tit. 25, art. 42 (Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact); residence-change duties at IC 25-42-4-3 and 25-42-4-4",
      "sourceUrl": "https://iga.in.gov/laws/current/ic/articles/25/42",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Indiana is the clean structural opposite of Kentucky. Where Kentucky gives the compact one titled section inside the nursing chapter, Indiana gives it an entire separate article — art. 42 — sitting apart from art. 23, which holds the nurse practice act. So the nursing article is not where Indiana’s compact law lives, and a search confined to it finds nothing. The residence-change duties that catch nurses after a move are at IC 25-42-4-3 and 25-42-4-4.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/indiana"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Iowa",
      "abbreviation": "IA",
      "slug": "iowa",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Iowa Code ch. 152E (Nurse Licensure Compacts)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/152E.pdf",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Iowa titles the chapter in the PLURAL — \"Nurse Licensure Compacts\" — because it carries the APRN compact alongside the RN/LPN one in the same place. That is unusual and easy to misread: finding APRN compact language in Iowa law does not mean APRN privilege is available, only that Iowa has legislated for it. Keep the two compacts separate when reading this chapter.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/iowa"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Kansas",
      "abbreviation": "KS",
      "slug": "kansas",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "K.S.A. 65-1166 (Nurse Licensure Compact); enacted by HB 2496 (2018)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch65/065_011_0066.html",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Kansas puts the whole compact in one numbered section inside the public health chapter rather than the professions chapter, so it sits alongside 65-1115 onward — the nurse practice act sections — rather than in a code title about licensing. The enacting vehicle was HB 2496 in 2018, which amended the Nurse Practice Act at the same time.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/kansas"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Kentucky",
      "abbreviation": "KY",
      "slug": "kentucky",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "KRS 314.475 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=47114",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Kentucky gives the compact its own titled section inside the nursing chapter rather than a separate act, and names the board’s executive director as the “head of the state licensing board” for compact purposes — so the person with compact authority is identified in statute rather than by internal delegation.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/kentucky"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Louisiana",
      "abbreviation": "LA",
      "slug": "louisiana",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "La. R.S. 37:1018 to 37:1020 (Title 37, ch. 11, pt. V) — Nurse Licensure Compact",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.lsbn.state.la.us/nurse-licensure-compact",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Cited to the Louisiana State Board of Nursing, which names its own governing statute as \"Part V, Chapter 11 of Title 37, section 1018 through 1020\". The legislature’s text is not directly addressable — legis.la.gov serves statutes by document ID issued from its own search rather than by section number — so this is the regulator’s statement of the citation rather than a reading of the enacted text. That is a weaker source than the Arizona or Wyoming records here and is marked as such deliberately.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/louisiana"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Maine",
      "abbreviation": "ME",
      "slug": "maine",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 32, ch. 31, subch. 2-A (Nurse Licensure Compact), §§ 2171–2181",
      "sourceUrl": "https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/32/title32ch31sec0.html",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Maine inserts the compact as its own subchapter — 2-A — wedged between the board subchapter and the registered-nurse one, which is why it does not appear in a straight run of section numbers. Worth noting for anyone reading the chapter through: Maine also legislates telehealth nursing in the same chapter at subchapter 7, so the two questions a cross-border nurse usually has to ask separately are answered in one place here.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/maine"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Maryland",
      "abbreviation": "MD",
      "slug": "maryland",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Md. Code, Health Occupations §§ 8-7A-01 to 8-7A-05 (Nurse Licensure Compact); board authority at § 8-205(a)(1)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://health.maryland.gov/mbon/pages/msl-info.aspx",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Maryland gives the compact its own subtitle (8-7A) within the Health Occupations Article, with the operating detail in regulation at COMAR 10.27.22. Worth knowing for anyone tracing the history: Maryland joined the original compact in 1999, before the enhanced NLC existed, so its compact law long predates the 2018 rewrite that most states are working from.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/maryland"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Massachusetts",
      "abbreviation": "MA",
      "slug": "massachusetts",
      "compactStatus": "enacted_awaiting_implementation",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112A",
      "sourceUrl": "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVI/Chapter112A",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Signed 20 November 2024. The statute is on the books, but the Board of Registration in Nursing has not completed implementation — so no multistate licenses are issued and compact privilege does not yet apply here. § 18 requires fingerprint-based state and national background checks, which is part of why implementation takes time.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/massachusetts"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Michigan",
      "abbreviation": "MI",
      "slug": "michigan",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/michigan"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Minnesota",
      "abbreviation": "MN",
      "slug": "minnesota",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/minnesota"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Mississippi",
      "abbreviation": "MS",
      "slug": "mississippi",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 73-15-201 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.msbn.ms.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Legal/73-15-201%20Nurse%20Licensure%20Compact%20(1).pdf",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": true,
      "note": "Read off the Board of Nursing’s own published copy of the section, which opens “The Nurse Licensure Compact is enacted into law and entered into by this state with any and all states legally joining in the compact.” That document also carries the trap: its header reads “Formerly cited as MS ST 73-15-22”. Mississippi RENUMBERED the compact, so an older citation points at 73-15-22 and a search for it in the current code comes back empty — the same shape of problem as Arizona’s repealed sections, except here the text moved rather than died.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/mississippi"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Missouri",
      "abbreviation": "MO",
      "slug": "missouri",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "RSMo ch. 335, Nurse Licensure Compact provisions at §§ 335.300 et seq. (incl. §§ 335.365, 335.370, 335.375)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=335.365",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Missouri names the board’s executive director as the head of the licensing board for compact purposes, and states plainly that a nurse practicing here on privilege is subject to Missouri discipline — the point that surprises people, since the license itself was issued elsewhere. Note also that the compact sections sit apart from the nurse practice act sections (§§ 335.011–335.096) in the same chapter, so a citation to “chapter 335” alone does not identify compact law.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/missouri"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Montana",
      "abbreviation": "MT",
      "slug": "montana",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Mont. Code Ann. tit. 37, ch. 8, pt. 5 (Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0370/chapter_0080/parts_index.html",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Montana gives the compact a whole PART of the nursing chapter rather than a section, sitting after Part 4 on licensing — so it is neither buried in the practice act nor moved to a separate chapter. Montana is also one of the few to name the ENHANCED compact in the structure itself, which is a useful signal: the part title tells you which version of the compact you are reading before you read any of it.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/montana"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Nebraska",
      "abbreviation": "NE",
      "slug": "nebraska",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-1795 to 71-1795.02 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=71-1795",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Nebraska names the board’s executive director as compact administrator, and — unusually — legislates for the exit as well as the entry: the statute requires notice of withdrawal to every other party state within thirty days of any repeal. Most compact statutes describe only joining. Worth knowing that leaving is a defined procedure rather than a silent lapse.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/nebraska"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Nevada",
      "abbreviation": "NV",
      "slug": "nevada",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/nevada"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "New Hampshire",
      "abbreviation": "NH",
      "slug": "new-hampshire",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 326-B:46 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/326-B/326-B-46.htm",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "New Hampshire folds the compact into the Nurse Practice Act itself, at RSA 326-B:46, rather than giving it a separate chapter. It also puts a qualification on the compact administrator that most states leave to internal appointment: New Hampshire’s administrator must hold a current New Hampshire nursing license and represent the board.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/new-hampshire"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "New Jersey",
      "abbreviation": "NJ",
      "slug": "new-jersey",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "P.L. 2019, c. 172 (entering New Jersey into the Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/nur/Pages/Nurse-Licensure.aspx",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Enacted 2019, but New Jersey implemented in two stages — visiting compact nurses from March 2020, New Jersey-issued multistate licenses only from November 2021.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/new-jersey"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "New Mexico",
      "abbreviation": "NM",
      "slug": "new-mexico",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "NMSA 1978 ch. 61, art. 3 (Nursing Practice Act) — Nurse Licensure Compact provisions; enacted by SB 186 (2003)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/sessions/03%20Regular/FinalVersions/SB0186.html",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "New Mexico folds the compact into the Nursing Practice Act itself rather than giving it a separate article, so there is no standalone compact citation to quote. The provision worth knowing is an affirmative duty almost no other state imposes: a nurse practicing in New Mexico on a multistate privilege who STOPS practicing here must notify the board in writing of the date they stop. Most compact law is silent on leaving. New Mexico also sets a six-month delay on any state’s withdrawal from the compact taking effect.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/new-mexico"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "New York",
      "abbreviation": "NY",
      "slug": "new-york",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/new-york"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "North Carolina",
      "abbreviation": "NC",
      "slug": "north-carolina",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "N.C. Gen. Stat. ch. 90, art. 9G, enacted by S.L. 2017-140 (H.B. 550)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/HTML/H550v3.html",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": true,
      "note": "S.L. 2017-140 repealed North Carolina’s original compact (former §§ 90-171.80 to 90-171.94) and replaced it with the enhanced NLC, effective 20 July 2017 — the same day North Carolina became the 26th state to enact the eNLC, which triggered the compact nationally.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/north-carolina"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "North Dakota",
      "abbreviation": "ND",
      "slug": "north-dakota",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "N.D. Cent. Code ch. 43-12.4 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t43c12-4.pdf",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "The compact sits in its own chapter, 43-12.4, next to but separate from the Nurse Practices Act at 43-12.1 — close enough in numbering to mis-cite, far enough apart in subject to matter. North Dakota joined the original compact on 1 January 2004 and moved to the enhanced one on 19 January 2018, and it legislated for the APRN compact in the same 2017 session. That makes it the fourth jurisdiction here, with Iowa, Idaho and Delaware, carrying APRN compact law on the books.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/north-dakota"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Northern Mariana Islands",
      "abbreviation": "MP",
      "slug": "northern-mariana-islands",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/northern-mariana-islands"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Ohio",
      "abbreviation": "OH",
      "slug": "ohio",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Ohio Rev. Code § 4723.11",
      "sourceUrl": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4723.11",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/ohio"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Oklahoma",
      "abbreviation": "OK",
      "slug": "oklahoma",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "59 O.S. § 567.21 (Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact), within the Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act at 59 O.S. § 567.1 et seq.",
      "sourceUrl": "https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/nursing/documents/actwp25.pdf",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Oklahoma keeps the compact inside the Nursing Practice Act rather than in a separate chapter — § 567.21 sits in the same run as the practice act sections beginning at § 567.1. The board publishes the whole Act as a dated PDF, which is a genuinely better primary source than most: you can see which version you are reading from the cover rather than guessing whether a web page is current. Multistate licensure has been available here since the enhanced compact implemented on 19 January 2018, and Oklahoma explicitly extends it to telehealth as well as in-person practice.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/oklahoma"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Oregon",
      "abbreviation": "OR",
      "slug": "oregon",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/oregon"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Pennsylvania",
      "abbreviation": "PA",
      "slug": "pennsylvania",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Act 68 of 2021 (Senate Bill 115)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/LI/uconsCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&yr=2021&sessInd=0&smthLwInd=0&act=68",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Signed 1 July 2021 and effective immediately, but the compact did not become usable in Pennsylvania until implementation completed on 7 July 2025 — four years later.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/pennsylvania"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Puerto Rico",
      "abbreviation": "PR",
      "slug": "puerto-rico",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "statuteStatus": "no_compact_law",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/puerto-rico"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Rhode Island",
      "abbreviation": "RI",
      "slug": "rhode-island",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 5-34.3 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE5/5-34.3/",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Rhode Island is the one state in this survey that left the compact and came back: it REJOINED effective 1 January 2024, with licenses issued to qualified residents from that date being multistate. Every other jurisdiction here has only ever moved in one direction. It is the practical counterpart to the exit machinery Nebraska and New Mexico legislate for and nobody else uses — and a reason to date any claim about Rhode Island’s status rather than treating it as settled. The compact is its own chapter, 5-34.3, separate from ch. 5-34 (Nurses).",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/rhode-island"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "South Carolina",
      "abbreviation": "SC",
      "slug": "south-carolina",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "S.C. Code Ann. §§ 40-33-1300 to 40-33-1365 (tit. 40, ch. 33, art. 15 — Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t40c033.php",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Article 15 of the Nurse Practice Act chapter, opening \"The Nurse Licensure Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this State\". Fourteen sections, 40-33-1300 through 40-33-1365. The article carries a codifier’s note throughout that 2017 Act No. 41 rewrote these sections \"to reflect changes mandated for membership in the Nurse Licensure Compact\" — that is the original-to-enhanced changeover, recorded in the code itself rather than inferred. Note for anyone re-checking this: the chapter page is ~199KB and truncates when read through a summarizing fetch, which reports the compact as absent. It is not absent; it is past the cut.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/south-carolina"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "South Dakota",
      "abbreviation": "SD",
      "slug": "south-dakota",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "S.D. Codified Laws §§ 36-9-98 to 36-9-99 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/36-9-98",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "South Dakota gives the compact no chapter of its own — it is two sections at the end of ch. 36-9, the registered and practical nurses chapter, which is why a search for a South Dakota compact CHAPTER finds nothing and why this citation went unconfirmed here for so long. § 36-9-98 carries the whole compact: “The Nurse Licensure Compact is enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions that legally join the compact.” The section after it is the unusual one. § 36-9-99 is headed “General funds not to be used to support compact” — South Dakota legislated the compact and, in the very next breath, legislated how it may not be paid for. Most states say nothing about funding at all.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/south-dakota"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Tennessee",
      "abbreviation": "TN",
      "slug": "tennessee",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "unverified",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/tennessee"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Texas",
      "abbreviation": "TX",
      "slug": "texas",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Tex. Occ. Code ch. 304 (§§ 304.001–304.010)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.304.htm",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Chapter 304 is the compact itself; the Board’s implementing rules sit in the Texas Administrative Code.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/texas"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "U.S. Virgin Islands",
      "abbreviation": "VI",
      "slug": "us-virgin-islands",
      "compactStatus": "enacted_awaiting_implementation",
      "statuteStatus": "unverified",
      "citation": null,
      "sourceUrl": null,
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": null,
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/us-virgin-islands"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Utah",
      "abbreviation": "UT",
      "slug": "utah",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Utah Code tit. 58, ch. 31e (Nurse Licensure Compact — Revised), § 58-31e-102",
      "sourceUrl": "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title58/Chapter31e/58-31e-S101.html",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": true,
      "note": "Utah is the jurisdiction where citing the wrong chapter is easiest, because BOTH compacts are still in the code. Chapter 31c is the PRIOR compact and chapter 31e is the current one — party states to the old compact were deemed withdrawn within six months of the new one taking effect. A citation to 58-31c therefore points at superseded law that still looks live on the page. This is the same trap that produced repealed section numbers for Arizona, except here it is visible if you read the chapter titles.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/utah"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Vermont",
      "abbreviation": "VT",
      "slug": "vermont",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "26 V.S.A. ch. 28, subch. 5 (Nurse Licensure Compact); enacted by Act 64 of 2021",
      "sourceUrl": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/chapter/26/028",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Vermont is one of the most recent joiners and the dates are unusually clean because of it: Act 64 signed 7 June 2021, membership effective 1 February 2022 — an eight-month gap between enactment and usability, which is the same enacted-is-not-implemented distinction that catches people in much older adopters. The board’s executive director serves as state administrator.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/vermont"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Virginia",
      "abbreviation": "VA",
      "slug": "virginia",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Va. Code tit. 54.1, ch. 30, art. 6.1 (§ 54.1-3040.2 et seq.)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacodefull/title54.1/chapter30/article6.1/",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Virginia codifies the compact as its own article within the nursing chapter, so the compact text sits alongside the nurse practice act rather than in a separate title.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/virginia"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Washington",
      "abbreviation": "WA",
      "slug": "washington",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Substitute Senate Bill 5499 (2023)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://nursing.wa.gov/msl",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Signed 21 April 2023, making Washington the 40th jurisdiction to enact. The same legislation renamed the regulator from the Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission to the Washington State Board of Nursing.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/washington"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "West Virginia",
      "abbreviation": "WV",
      "slug": "west-virginia",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "W. Va. Code art. 30-7F (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/30-7F/",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "The article letter matters here more than usual. 30-7F is the compact; 30-7E is nurse health programs, and the two are one letter apart in a chapter that also runs 30-7, 30-7A and 30-7B. Getting it wrong lands you in a genuinely different subject rather than on an error page. This is also the state that runs SEPARATE boards for registered and practical nurses, so West Virginia rewards checking twice on both counts.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/west-virginia"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Wisconsin",
      "abbreviation": "WI",
      "slug": "wisconsin",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "Wis. Stat. § 441.51 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/441",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Wisconsin joined the enhanced compact effective December 11, 2017. Its statutory references to the \"Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact\" were renamed to plain \"Nurse Licensure Compact\" effective April 10, 2022 — the same compact, so older documents citing the eNLC by name are not out of date in substance.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/wisconsin"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Wyoming",
      "abbreviation": "WY",
      "slug": "wyoming",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "statuteStatus": "cited",
      "citation": "W.S. §§ 33-21-201 to 33-21-202 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title33.pdf",
      "supersedesEarlierCompact": false,
      "note": "Read from Wyoming’s own compiled Title 33. § 33-21-201 is the short title — \"This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Nurse Licensure Compact.'\" — and § 33-21-202 approves and ratifies it, with the compact text itself inside that section. Those are the only 33-21-2xx sections in the title, so the article is those two. The enacted text also settles which compact this is without guessing: it carries the supersession clause deeming party states to have withdrawn from the prior Nurse Licensure Compact, which is the ENHANCED compact’s language.",
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/wyoming"
    }
  ]
}