{
  "dataset": "How each U.S. nursing jurisdiction verifies a license",
  "description": "Original research covering all U.S. nursing jurisdictions. Each record was read off that board’s own published material rather than inferred from a national list.",
  "publisher": "https://www.compactstates.com",
  "license": "Free to use with attribution to https://www.compactstates.com",
  "disclaimer": "Not an official source. Confirm with the issuing board of nursing before relying on any record.",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-07-31",
  "fieldNotes": {
    "lookup": "null means the jurisdiction publishes no public lookup. It does not mean the research is incomplete.",
    "nlcStatute": "\"unverified\" means the jurisdiction HAS adopted the compact but the citation is unconfirmed. \"none\" means no compact law exists. The two are not interchangeable.",
    "verificationNote": "The jurisdiction-specific thing that trips people up: credential splits, agency splits, consent requirements, rate limits, license-number prefixes, and what an empty result means there."
  },
  "counts": {
    "jurisdictions": 56,
    "withBoardLookup": 55,
    "withoutPublishedLookup": 1,
    "statuteCited": 41,
    "statuteUnverified": 2,
    "noCompactLaw": 13
  },
  "records": [
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Alabama",
      "slug": "alabama",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Alabama Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.abn.alabama.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Alabama Board of Nursing license lookup",
        "url": "https://www.abn.alabama.gov/licensing/verification/license-lookup/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Free, and the board treats it as primary source verification — but only \"as of the date the verification is printed\". That caveat is stated plainly here where most states leave it implicit, and it is the honest framing: any verification is a snapshot, which is why enrolling in ongoing notification matters more than the quality of the one-off check. Alabama also routes RN, LPN and APRN through the same lookup, so the credential-based split seen in D.C. and Delaware is not universal.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Alabama nursing licensure law (Alabama Board of Nursing)",
        "url": "https://www.abn.alabama.gov/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "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)",
        "url": "https://www.abn.alabama.gov/legal/nurse-licensure-compact/",
        "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",
      "slug": "alaska",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "Alaska Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/professionallicensing/boardofnursing.aspx"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Alaska online license verification",
        "url": "https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/ProfessionalLicensing/BoardofNursing/OnlineLicenseVerification"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Alaska is the mirror image of Nevada: it has abolished the request-and-fee route entirely, and its online search tool IS the primary source verification. Nothing to submit, nothing to pay, nothing to wait for. If you have budgeted time for a verification request from Alaska, you do not need it.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Alaska nursing statutes & regulations (Board of Nursing)",
        "url": "https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/web/cbpl/professionallicensing/boardofnursing.aspx"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/alaska"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "American Samoa",
      "slug": "american-samoa",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "American Samoa Health Services Regulatory Board",
        "url": "https://www.ncsbn.org/bon-member-details/AmericanSamoa"
      },
      "lookup": null,
      "verificationNote": "American Samoa has no board of nursing. A single Health Services Regulatory Board licenses every health profession in the territory — the exact inverse of West Virginia, which runs two separate boards for one profession. It is also the thinnest-sourced jurisdiction of all fifty-six: NCSBN’s own directory entry lists no website for the board, and states no Nursys participation. So there is no online lookup to publish here, and we are not going to invent one. Verification is a phone-and-email process through the Department of Health in Pago Pago. Budget days, not minutes, and start it early.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "A.S.C.A. § 31.1002 — Health Services Regulatory Board, created; purpose",
        "url": "https://asbar.org/code-annotated/31-1002-health-services-regulatory-board-created-purpose/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/american-samoa"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Arizona",
      "slug": "arizona",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Arizona State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.azbn.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Arizona BON primary source verification",
        "url": "https://azbn.gov/licenses-and-certifications/primary-source-verification"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Arizona splits by credential: RN, LPN and APRN records are uploaded to Nursys daily, while CNA and other certifications stay on the board’s own portal. If you are verifying a nursing assistant, Nursys will not have them.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "A.R.S. tit. 32, ch. 15 (Nursing)",
        "url": "https://azbn.gov/laws-rules/nurse-practice-act/statutes"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "A.R.S. tit. 32, ch. 15, art. 2.1 (§§ 32-1660 to 32-1660.03) — Nurse Licensure Compact",
        "url": "https://www.azleg.gov/viewdocument/?docName=https://www.azleg.gov/ars/32/01660.htm",
        "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",
      "slug": "arkansas",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Arkansas State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://healthy.arkansas.gov/boards-commissions/boards/nursing-arkansas-state-board/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Arkansas State Board of Nursing license lookup",
        "url": "https://arsbn.boardsofnursing.org/licenselookup"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Both routes are primary source here — the board’s own 24-hour lookup, and Nursys, which holds data supplied directly by the board. Same dual-authority arrangement as Missouri. Arkansas also licenses a credential most states do not have: the psychiatric technician nurse, alongside RN, APRN, registered nurse practitioner and LPN. As with New Hampshire’s medication nursing assistants, that means Arkansas holds records for titles that simply do not exist elsewhere, so an unfamiliar title on a CV is not automatically a red flag.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Arkansas nursing licensure law (Arkansas State Board of Nursing)",
        "url": "https://healthy.arkansas.gov/boards-commissions/boards/nursing-arkansas-state-board/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Ark. Code Ann. §§ 17-87-601 to 17-87-604 (Nurse Practice Act, subch. 6 — Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://healthy.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/NPAafter2025legislation.Subchapter6.pdf",
        "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",
      "slug": "california",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "California Board of Registered Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.rn.ca.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "California BRN license verification",
        "url": "https://www.rn.ca.gov/online/verify.shtml"
      },
      "verificationNote": "California is not a compact state, so its own lookup — not a multistate designation — is what matters here.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 2700 et seq. (Nursing Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://www.rn.ca.gov/practice/npa.shtml"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/california"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Colorado",
      "slug": "colorado",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Colorado State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/Nursing"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Colorado Board of Nursing verification (via Nursys)",
        "url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/Nursing/NursysVerification"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Unusually, Colorado does not run a separate state lookup — its board directs verification to Nursys, so for Colorado licenses Nursys IS the primary source rather than a national convenience layer.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "C.R.S. tit. 12, art. 255 (Nurse and Nurse Aide Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://dpo.colorado.gov/Nursing/Laws"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "SB 18-027, Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (2018); codified within C.R.S. tit. 12, art. 255",
        "url": "https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb18-027",
        "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",
      "slug": "connecticut",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Connecticut Board of Examiners for Nursing",
        "url": "https://portal.ct.gov/dph/practitioner-licensing--investigations/registered-nurse/registered-nurse-licensure"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Connecticut eLicense verification",
        "url": "https://www.elicense.ct.gov/Lookup/LicenseLookup.aspx"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Connecticut is the second state, with Florida, where the state’s own licensing portal is not the nursing route. eLicense covers Connecticut’s professions generally, but DPH directs employers and the public to Nursys for RN and LPN verification specifically — the department even maintains a page for verifying professions OTHER than MD, DO, RN and LPN, which is the tell. Nurses checking their own status log into eLicense; employers checking someone else’s should start at Nursys. Written verification is a separate request again, not the online result.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 378 (Nursing)",
        "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_378.htm"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Conn. Public Act 24-83 (House Bill 5058)",
        "url": "https://www.cga.ct.gov/2024/ACT/PA/PDF/2024PA-00083-R00HB-05058-PA.PDF",
        "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",
      "slug": "delaware",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Delaware Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://dpr.delaware.gov/boards/nursing/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Delaware DELPROS search & verify",
        "url": "https://dpr.delaware.gov/boards/nursing/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Free lookup with a discipline column — where history exists it reads \"Yes\" and the Board Orders themselves are downloadable, not just flagged. Delaware does not issue written verifications for RNs and LPNs at all; that route is Nursys only, like Maine. APRNs go through a separate verification process instead — the second jurisdiction in this cohort, after D.C., where RN and LPN traffic rides shared national infrastructure and advanced practice is handled apart from it.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "24 Del. C. ch. 19 (Board of Nursing)",
        "url": "https://dpr.delaware.gov/boards/nursing/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Del. Code tit. 24, ch. 19A (Nurse Multistate Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://delcode.delaware.gov/title24/c019a/index.html",
        "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",
      "slug": "district-of-columbia",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "District of Columbia Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://dchealth.dc.gov/bon"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "DC Health license lookup",
        "url": "https://dohenterprise.my.site.com/ver/s/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Free lookup drawn from the Health Regulation and Licensing Administration database, refreshed daily. Outbound verification splits by CREDENTIAL rather than by destination: an RN or LPN verification to another board goes through Nursys, but an APRN verification to any recipient requires a paper form and a $34 fee. So an APRN leaving D.C. faces a slower, paid, manual route that an RN beside them does not — a concrete instance of the pattern this site keeps flagging, where advanced practice sits outside the infrastructure everyone else uses.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "District of Columbia nursing licensure law (Board of Nursing, DC Health)",
        "url": "https://dchealth.dc.gov/bon"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/district-of-columbia"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Florida",
      "slug": "florida",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Florida Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://floridasnursing.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Florida MQA license verification",
        "url": "https://mqa-internet.doh.state.fl.us/MQASearchServices/HealthCareProviders"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Florida is the state where the obvious route is the wrong one. MQA and FL HealthSource are the front door for Florida health-professional licensing generally, so that is where an employer lands — but the board directs NURSE license verification, RN and LPN, to Nursys. The MQA search will show you a Florida practitioner record; it is not the route the board points employers at for nurses. Official certifications are ordered separately and are a paid service.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Fla. Stat. ch. 464 (Nurse Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/Chapter464"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Fla. Stat. § 464.0095",
        "url": "https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/464.0095",
        "note": "The compact text is codified as a single section within the nursing chapter."
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/florida"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Georgia",
      "slug": "georgia",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Georgia Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://sos.ga.gov/georgia-board-nursing"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Georgia Secretary of State license lookup",
        "url": "https://sos.ga.gov/licensing-division-license-lookup"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Georgia licenses nurses through the Secretary of State’s Licensing Division rather than a standalone board agency.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "O.C.G.A. tit. 43, ch. 26 (Nurse Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://sos.ga.gov/page/rules-and-laws-nursing-board"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "O.C.G.A. tit. 43, ch. 26, art. 4 (multistate licensure / Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://gov.georgia.gov/document/signed-legislation/sb-168pdf/download",
        "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",
      "slug": "guam",
      "compactStatus": "partial",
      "board": {
        "name": "Guam Board of Nurse Examiners",
        "url": "https://guamhplo.org/gbne"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Guam Board of Nurse Examiners (via Nursys)",
        "url": "https://guamhplo.org/gbne"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Two things to know. Guam’s material spreads across three domains: the board sits at guamhplo.org, its primary-source search at guamnursing.org, and Nursys carries the free public lookup — one more hop than New Mexico’s two-domain split. And an OFFICIAL verification requires a signed authorization to release information from the licensee, plus a $25 fee. That consent requirement is unique in this cohort: an employer cannot obtain an official Guam verification independently, the nurse has to sign first, so it belongs in the hiring timeline rather than being discovered at the end of it. The board licenses RNs, LPNs, APRNs and CNAs.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Guam nursing licensure law (Guam Board of Nurse Examiners, HPLO)",
        "url": "https://guamhplo.org/gbne"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "10 GCA ch. 12, art. 3A (Nurse Licensure Compact); added by P.L. 36-006:1 (5 March 2021)",
        "url": "https://guamhplo.org/sites/default/files/10_gca_art._3a_-_nurse_licensure_compact_2022-01-11_0.pdf",
        "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",
      "slug": "hawaii",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "Hawaii Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/boards/nursing/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Hawaii PVL license search (MyPVL)",
        "url": "https://cca.hawaii.gov/pvl/e_services/professional-vocational-licensing-search/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Checking a Hawaii license is free. Sending a verification TO another state’s board carries a fee — and unusually, that fee is fixed in the nurse practice act itself (HRS ch. 457) rather than set by board policy, so it is not something the board can waive on request. Hawaii licenses nurses through the DCCA’s Professional and Vocational Licensing division rather than a standalone board agency.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "HRS ch. 457 (Nurses)",
        "url": "https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol10_Ch0436-0474/HRS0457/HRS_0457-.htm"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/hawaii"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Idaho",
      "slug": "idaho",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Idaho Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://dopl.idaho.gov/bon/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Idaho DOPL board of nursing license search",
        "url": "https://dopl.idaho.gov/bon/bon-license-search/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Public search for LPN, RN and APRN records. Idaho’s outbound route is self-service in a way most states are not: a nurse pulls their own certification from their DOPL Online Services account rather than asking the board to produce one. That removes the board’s queue from the timeline entirely — but it also means the nurse has to have account access, which is worth checking before they need it rather than during a move.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Idaho nursing licensure law (Board of Nursing, DOPL)",
        "url": "https://dopl.idaho.gov/bon/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Idaho Code § 54-1418 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title54/t54ch14/sect54-1418/",
        "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",
      "slug": "illinois",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "Illinois Board of Nursing (IDFPR)",
        "url": "https://idfpr.illinois.gov/profs/nursing.html"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "IDFPR license lookup",
        "url": "https://idfpr.illinois.gov/checklicense.html"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Illinois is the state to copy if you verify at volume. It publishes a BULK lookup alongside the single one — the thing most boards leave you to solve by hammering a form built for one-off checks, which is how employers hit rate limits elsewhere. The trade-off is freshness: single lookup updates daily, bulk weekly, so use bulk for a roster sweep and single to confirm anything that matters today. IDFPR states its lookup is accepted as primary source by the Joint Commission, NCQA and the AOA’s accreditation program. One concrete cause of a blank result: allow up to 24 hours after a license is issued before it appears, which is exactly the window a new graduate is most likely to be checked in.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "225 ILCS 65 (Nurse Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ChapterID=24&ActID=1312"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/illinois"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Indiana",
      "slug": "indiana",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Indiana State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.in.gov/pla/professions/nursing-home/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Indiana PLA free search & verify",
        "url": "https://www.in.gov/pla/license/free-search-and-verify/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Indiana tiers this: the free search is updated in real time and is enough to confirm status, while a paid official verification returns additional fields in a printable format. For a credentialing file the paid version is usually what an auditor expects to see.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Ind. Code tit. 25, art. 23 (Nurses)",
        "url": "https://www.in.gov/pla/professions/nursing-home/nursing-licensing-information/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "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",
        "url": "https://iga.in.gov/laws/current/ic/articles/25/42",
        "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",
      "slug": "iowa",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Iowa Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://dial.iowa.gov/licenses/health-professions/nursing-professional-midwifery"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Iowa nursing license verification",
        "url": "https://dial.iowa.gov/licenses/health-professions/nursing-professional-midwifery/nursing-licensure/verify-license-status"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Iowa publishes free public rosters alongside individual lookup, and neither requires an account. If you are credentialing at volume rather than checking one nurse, that bulk route exists here where most states force you through one-at-a-time searches or ongoing Nursys e-Notify enrollment.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Iowa Code ch. 152 (Nursing)",
        "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/ico/chapter/152.pdf"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Iowa Code ch. 152E (Nurse Licensure Compacts)",
        "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/152E.pdf",
        "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",
      "slug": "kansas",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Kansas State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://ksbn.kansas.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Kansas State Board of Nursing license status verification",
        "url": "https://ksbn.kansas.gov/license-status-verification/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Kansas runs KANN — Kansas Automated Nurse Notification — which tells enrolled employers and schools when a license status changes, including at renewal. That is the first state-operated continuous-monitoring service in this cohort; everywhere else, ongoing monitoring means a Nursys e-Notify subscription. It directly automates the \"re-verify at renewal\" step that otherwise depends on somebody remembering, which is the step most likely to be skipped once a nurse is hired.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Kansas nursing licensure law (Kansas State Board of Nursing)",
        "url": "https://ksbn.kansas.gov/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "K.S.A. 65-1166 (Nurse Licensure Compact); enacted by HB 2496 (2018)",
        "url": "https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch65/065_011_0066.html",
        "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",
      "slug": "kentucky",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Kentucky Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://kbn.ky.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Kentucky Board of Nursing verification portal",
        "url": "https://kbn.ky.gov/Licensure/Pages/Verification.aspx"
      },
      "verificationNote": "The only state in this cohort whose portal lets you search by NCSBN ID as well as by name or license number. That matters for a common name: the NCSBN ID is the stable cross-state identifier, so it resolves the \"is this the same nurse?\" question that a name search cannot. Kentucky moved to the ORBS system in March 2023, so guidance describing an older portal is out of date.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "KRS ch. 314 (Nursing); RN licensure at KRS 314.041, APRN at 314.042",
        "url": "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/chapter.aspx?id=38813"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "KRS 314.475 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=47114",
        "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",
      "slug": "louisiana",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Louisiana State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.lsbn.state.la.us/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Louisiana State Board of Nursing licensure verification",
        "url": "https://www.lsbn.state.la.us/licensure-verification/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Louisiana states outright that some licenses are NOT available for public verification and must be requested by email. So a blank result here does not mean the nurse is unlicensed — the same trap as Washington’s temporary permits, arriving by a different route. Outbound verification to a non-Nursys state is a mailed form with a $25 money order specifically, which is worth knowing before someone tries to pay by card.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Louisiana nursing licensure law (LSBN)",
        "url": "https://www.lsbn.state.la.us/Licensure,Renewals.aspx"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "La. R.S. 37:1018 to 37:1020 (Title 37, ch. 11, pt. V) — Nurse Licensure Compact",
        "url": "https://www.lsbn.state.la.us/nurse-licensure-compact",
        "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",
      "slug": "maine",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Maine State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.maine.gov/boardofnursing/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Maine Board of Nursing license verification",
        "url": "https://www.maine.gov/boardofnursing/licensure/license-verification"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Checking a Maine license is free. But Maine stopped processing verification forms to other jurisdictions in October 2002 — the board will not do it at all, and the only route is registering with Nursys and paying its fee. Any guidance telling a nurse to send a form to the Maine board is more than two decades out of date, and there is no fallback if Nursys does not cover the receiving jurisdiction.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Maine nursing licensure law (Board of Nursing)",
        "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/32/title32ch31sec0.html"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 32, ch. 31, subch. 2-A (Nurse Licensure Compact), §§ 2171–2181",
        "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/32/title32ch31sec0.html",
        "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",
      "slug": "maryland",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Maryland Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://mbon.maryland.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Maryland CHART license lookup",
        "url": "https://mdchart.health.maryland.gov/CHART/s/license-lookup"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Maryland runs its own lookup through CHART, separate from Nursys, and it is primary-source verification updated daily — printable for the facility file. What makes Maryland unusual is that the board argues AGAINST paper: it warns that paper licenses are only accurate at the moment they are printed, are easy to forge, and are used for identity fraud, and it treats a paper verification form as the fallback for the rare employer who will not accept the online result. That is the opposite instruction to North Carolina, which asks you to print the confirmation because the printout IS your proof. Both are right about their own systems, which is precisely why “just get a copy of the verification” is not portable advice.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Md. Code, Health Occupations, tit. 8 (Nurses)",
        "url": "https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2020RS/Statute_Web/gho/gho.pdf"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Md. Code, Health Occupations §§ 8-7A-01 to 8-7A-05 (Nurse Licensure Compact); board authority at § 8-205(a)(1)",
        "url": "https://health.maryland.gov/mbon/pages/msl-info.aspx",
        "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",
      "slug": "massachusetts",
      "compactStatus": "enacted_awaiting_implementation",
      "board": {
        "name": "Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.mass.gov/orgs/board-of-registration-in-nursing"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Massachusetts license verification (Mass.gov)",
        "url": "https://www.mass.gov/how-to/check-a-nursing-license"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Massachusetts states plainly that its Check a License result IS primary-source verification and that an employer may use and print it — so this is a one-step check, not a preliminary one. The trap is the license-number prefix. RNs and APRNs both use RN; practical nurses use LN, not LP. Searching an LPN under a guessed “LP” number returns nothing, which reads as an unlicensed nurse rather than a mistyped prefix. Names must also match the license exactly. A written verification for a foreign country or a non-board agency is a separate, paid, posted request — it is not the online result.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112, §§ 74–81C",
        "url": "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVI/Chapter112"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 112A",
        "url": "https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXVI/Chapter112A",
        "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",
      "slug": "michigan",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "Michigan Board of Nursing (LARA)",
        "url": "https://www.michigan.gov/lara/bureau-list/bpl/health/hp-lic-health-prof/nursing"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Michigan LARA license verification",
        "url": "https://www.michigan.gov/lara/i-need-to/find-or-verify-a-licensed-professional-or-business"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Michigan splits free from certified, and only the free half is open to you. The public MiPLUS search confirms status at no cost and needs no account. A CERTIFIED license verification — the document another board or a credentialing file will want — is a paid order placed from inside a MiPLUS account, which means the licensee has to place it; an employer cannot. Same shape as Pennsylvania, and the same consequence: if you are the nurse, this step is yours and nobody will do it for you. Allow about 24 hours after a renewal before the new expiry shows online, so a license renewed yesterday can read as expired today.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Public Health Code, 1978 PA 368, art. 15 pt. 172 (MCL 333.17201 et seq.)",
        "url": "https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-368-1978-15-172"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/michigan"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Minnesota",
      "slug": "minnesota",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "Minnesota Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://mn.gov/boards/nursing/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Minnesota Board of Nursing license verification",
        "url": "https://mn.gov/boards/nursing/verify-a-license/index.jsp"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Two separate entry points, and picking the wrong one returns nothing rather than an error: RN and LPN verification sits behind one button, APRN behind another. Minnesota is also the useful counter-example to the assumption that a temporary permit cannot be verified — Washington will not verify one, and that failure gets generalised into “temporary permits never show up”. Minnesota verifies permits alongside licenses. So a blank Minnesota result is not explained by the nurse holding a permit; look at the credential type you searched under instead. Employers checking a roster repeatedly can subscribe to the board’s auto-verification service rather than re-running searches by hand.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Minn. Stat. §§ 148.171–148.285 (Minnesota Nurse Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/148.171"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/minnesota"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Mississippi",
      "slug": "mississippi",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Mississippi Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.msbn.ms.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Mississippi Board of Nursing verification",
        "url": "https://gateway.licensure.msbn.ms.gov/Verification/search.aspx"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Two constraints worth knowing before you rely on this. The board’s search asks for a Social Security number alongside a license number or surname, so it is not a blind lookup an employer can run from a CV alone — you need information the nurse must give you. And the record is regenerated at the close of business and appears the following day, so a license issued or changed today will not show until tomorrow. That lag is a further reason an empty result is not proof of absence.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 73-15-1 et seq. (Mississippi Nursing Practice Law)",
        "url": "https://www.msbn.ms.gov/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 73-15-201 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://www.msbn.ms.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Legal/73-15-201%20Nurse%20Licensure%20Compact%20(1).pdf",
        "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",
      "slug": "missouri",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Missouri State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://pr.mo.gov/nursing.asp"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Missouri Division of Professional Registration licensee search",
        "url": "https://pr.mo.gov/nursing-verification.asp"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Missouri treats BOTH routes as primary source: Nursys holds data supplied directly by the board, and the Division’s own search is itself a primary-source verification, refreshed nightly. Either satisfies a credentialing file — so unlike states where one system is authoritative, here the choice is genuinely yours.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "RSMo ch. 335 (Nurses), §§ 335.011–335.096",
        "url": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapterRng.aspx?tb1=335.011+to+335.096"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "RSMo ch. 335, Nurse Licensure Compact provisions at §§ 335.300 et seq. (incl. §§ 335.365, 335.370, 335.375)",
        "url": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=335.365",
        "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",
      "slug": "montana",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Montana Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/nursing"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Montana licensee lookup",
        "url": "https://boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/_global-pages/additional-license-information/lookup-individual"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Free to check a Montana license, and Nursys QuickConfirm also covers it. Official verification to another board costs $20 and — unusually — Montana publishes a turnaround: five business days from receipt. It is the only state in this cohort to state one. Every other board leaves the timeline unknown, which is precisely what makes the endorsement step hard to plan around, so a published figure is worth more than the modest fee suggests.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "MCA tit. 37, ch. 8 (Nursing); fingerprint background checks at § 37-8-434",
        "url": "https://boards.bsd.dli.mt.gov/nursing/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Mont. Code Ann. tit. 37, ch. 8, pt. 5 (Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0370/chapter_0080/parts_index.html",
        "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",
      "slug": "nebraska",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Nebraska Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://dhhs.ne.gov/licensure/Pages/Nurse-Licensing.aspx"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Nebraska DHHS license lookup",
        "url": "https://dhhs.ne.gov/lookup"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Free online lookup, but note that Nebraska draws a hard distinction between two paid documents and the intuitive word gets you the weaker one. A CERTIFICATION carries the state seal and reports disciplinary action with types and dates. A VERIFICATION does not include the seal, the discipline history, schooling, or examination detail. If a receiving board or credentialing file needs discipline history, asking for a \"verification\" will produce a document that does not contain it.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 38-2201 to 38-2238 (Nurse Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=38-2201"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 71-1795 to 71-1795.02 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=71-1795",
        "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",
      "slug": "nevada",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "Nevada State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://nevadanursingboard.org/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Nevada State Board of Nursing web verification",
        "url": "https://nevadanursingboard.org/licensure-certificates/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Checking a Nevada license online is free. But asking Nevada to verify a license TO another board is a separate, paid process — a written request with a $25 fee, sent by the board directly to the requesting agency rather than handed to the nurse. If a nurse is moving out of Nevada by endorsement, that request should be started early; it is not something they can print themselves.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "NRS ch. 632 (Nursing); NAC ch. 632",
        "url": "https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-632.html"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/nevada"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "New Hampshire",
      "slug": "new-hampshire",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "New Hampshire Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/new-hampshire-board-nursing"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "New Hampshire OPLC license lookup",
        "url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/license-lookup"
      },
      "verificationNote": "New Hampshire separates a free license LOOKUP from a license VERIFICATION you apply for — the same two-product split as Nebraska, but named clearly enough that it is harder to order the wrong one. Its board also regulates a wider set of credentials than most: alongside RN, LPN and APRN it licenses nursing assistants, medication nursing assistants and nursing instructors. If you are checking someone whose title is not RN or LPN, New Hampshire may well have a record where another state would have none.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "RSA 326-B (Nurse Practice Act); N.H. Admin. R. Nur 100–800",
        "url": "https://www.oplc.nh.gov/board-nursing-laws-and-rules"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 326-B:46 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/326-B/326-B-46.htm",
        "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",
      "slug": "new-jersey",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "New Jersey Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/nur"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "New Jersey Board of Nursing — License Verification Section",
        "url": "https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/nur"
      },
      "verificationNote": "New Jersey is the outlier so far: its board directs verification to a staffed License Verification Section by telephone rather than a self-serve online lookup. Nursys still covers the license record, but if you need something the board itself has to confirm, expect a phone call rather than a printable page — worth building into a credentialing timeline.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "N.J.S.A. 45:11 (Nurses)",
        "url": "https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/nur"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "P.L. 2019, c. 172 (entering New Jersey into the Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://www.njconsumeraffairs.gov/nur/Pages/Nurse-Licensure.aspx",
        "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",
      "slug": "new-mexico",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "New Mexico Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.bon.nm.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "New Mexico RLD license search",
        "url": "https://www.rld.nm.gov/license-search/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "The lookup is not on the board’s own site. New Mexico runs a single search across every profession through the Regulation and Licensing Department, so the Board of Nursing lives at bon.nm.gov while the search lives at rld.nm.gov. Anyone starting from the board — the obvious place — has to cross to a second domain to check anything, which is a small thing that reliably wastes a few minutes.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "NMSA 1978, ch. 61, art. 3 (Nursing Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://www.bon.nm.gov/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "NMSA 1978 ch. 61, art. 3 (Nursing Practice Act) — Nurse Licensure Compact provisions; enacted by SB 186 (2003)",
        "url": "https://www.nmlegis.gov/sessions/03%20Regular/FinalVersions/SB0186.html",
        "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",
      "slug": "new-york",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "New York State Board of Nursing (Office of the Professions)",
        "url": "https://www.op.nysed.gov/professions/nursing"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "NYSED Office of the Professions verification",
        "url": "https://www.op.nysed.gov/services/verifications/online-verification-searches"
      },
      "verificationNote": "The Office of the Professions treats its online search as a primary source for verification. The part that catches people applying INTO New York is that the route depends on whether the state that issued your license participates in Nursys. Where it does, verification travels electronically. Where it does not, New York falls back to a paper instrument — Form 3, the Verification of Other Professional Licensure — which you send to your original licensing authority to complete and return to NYSED. That is a materially slower path, and it is chosen by your ISSUING state, not by you. We are deliberately not reproducing a list of non-participating states here: the lists published by different authorities disagree with each other, and at least one names a state whose own board documents its Nursys service. Check Nursys for your specific state rather than trusting any list, including ours.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "N.Y. Educ. Law art. 139; 8 NYCRR pt. 64",
        "url": "https://www.op.nysed.gov/title8/education-law/article-139"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/new-york"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "North Carolina",
      "slug": "north-carolina",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "North Carolina Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.ncbon.com/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "NCBON licensure verification",
        "url": "https://portal.ncbon.com/licenseverification/search.aspx"
      },
      "verificationNote": "North Carolina is the clearest case of one credential needing TWO systems. For a nurse practitioner, the board’s own lookup shows their approval to practice in North Carolina — but the underlying RN license has to be verified on Nursys. Check only the board and you have confirmed the practice approval while never confirming the license it rests on. The board’s portal also covers Nurse Aide II, which most states do not publish at all. Two process facts worth knowing: board-to-board verification runs through Nursys only and is not processed by post, and the board asks you to print the confirmation, because the proof is the printout rather than a record it retains for you.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "N.C. Gen. Stat. ch. 90, art. 9A (Nursing Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/ByArticle/Chapter_90/Article_9A.pdf"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "N.C. Gen. Stat. ch. 90, art. 9G, enacted by S.L. 2017-140 (H.B. 550)",
        "url": "https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/HTML/H550v3.html",
        "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",
      "slug": "north-dakota",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "North Dakota Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.ndbon.org/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "North Dakota Board of Nursing license lookup",
        "url": "https://www.ndbon.org/verify_renew/verify_nurse.asp"
      },
      "verificationNote": "The strongest free lookup found so far: real-time against the board’s own database (not a nightly extract, so no Mississippi-style next-day gap), treated as primary source, and it shows discipline history inline with links to the public records rather than a bare flag. Paid extras sit above it — $35 for an official verification, $65 for a downloadable list of active LPNs, RNs and APRNs. Note that list refreshes monthly on the second business day, so it can be up to a month stale where the free lookup is current.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "NDCC 43-12.1 (Nurse Practices Act)",
        "url": "https://ndbon.org/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "N.D. Cent. Code ch. 43-12.4 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t43c12-4.pdf",
        "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",
      "slug": "northern-mariana-islands",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "Northern Mariana Islands Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://nmibon.info/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "NMI Board of Nursing — License Verification Portal",
        "url": "https://nmibon.boardsofnursing.org/licenselookup"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Two naming traps, both of which send people to the wrong place. The board was formerly the CNMI Board of Nurse Examiners and is still listed under that old name in most directories — including, until we corrected it, ours. And the CNMI Board of Professional Licensing is a DIFFERENT agency that does not license nurses, despite being what a search for “CNMI licensing” actually returns. The nursing board runs its own lookup at the address above, which is a better position than American Samoa is in.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Northern Mariana Islands Board of Nursing — licensing authority",
        "url": "https://nmibon.info/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/northern-mariana-islands"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Ohio",
      "slug": "ohio",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Ohio Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://nursing.ohio.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Ohio eLicense verification",
        "url": "https://elicense.ohio.gov/oh_verifylicense"
      },
      "verificationNote": "eLicense is a shared system covering two dozen Ohio agencies, so the first step is selecting the Nursing Board — search without it and a nurse can appear to be missing when the search simply was not looking at nursing. Worth knowing for hospital credentialing: Ohio states that its online status information satisfies primary-source verification for the Joint Commission and NCQA, so the result can stand as the file copy rather than being a preliminary check you then have to repeat.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Ohio Rev. Code ch. 4723",
        "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/chapter-4723"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Ohio Rev. Code § 4723.11",
        "url": "https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4723.11",
        "note": null
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/ohio"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Oklahoma",
      "slug": "oklahoma",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Oklahoma Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://oklahoma.gov/nursing.html"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Oklahoma Board of Nursing verification portal",
        "url": "https://oklahoma.gov/nursing.html"
      },
      "verificationNote": "The board treats its own web verification as primary source. Two practical details: search needs a license type selected alongside the name or number, and Oklahoma license numbers are prefixed R for registered nurses and L for practical nurses — so a number that will not resolve is often being searched under the wrong type. Oklahoma also publishes bulk licensee lists through its open-records page, like Iowa and unlike the states that meter this.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "59 O.S. § 567.31 et seq. (Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://oklahoma.gov/nursing/nursing-practice-act.html"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "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.",
        "url": "https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok/en/nursing/documents/actwp25.pdf",
        "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",
      "slug": "oregon",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "Oregon State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/osbn/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Oregon State Board of Nursing primary source verification",
        "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/osbn/pages/primary_source_verification.aspx"
      },
      "verificationNote": "The most detailed verification in the cohort: alongside license type, number, issue, renewal and expiry dates, it reports whether the license has EVER been disciplined and names the action — reprimand, civil penalty, probation, suspension, revocation, or voluntary surrender. Most state lookups return a yes/no discipline flag, so a clean Oregon record is a stronger statement than a clean record elsewhere.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "ORS ch. 678 (Nurse Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://www.oregon.gov/osbn/pages/index.aspx"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/oregon"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Pennsylvania",
      "slug": "pennsylvania",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos/department-and-offices/bpoa/boards-commissions/nursing"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Pennsylvania Licensing System (PALS) verification",
        "url": "https://www.pals.pa.gov/#/page/search"
      },
      "verificationNote": "PALS answers the employer’s question — current status and expiry — from the public search, no account needed. The part that catches people is who has to act for the OTHER kind of verification: a Verification of License with History going to another state’s board must be requested by the licensee, logged into their own PALS dashboard. An employer or a receiving board cannot start it, and Pennsylvania asks that paper requests not be sent to the board office at all. If you are the nurse, this is on you and nobody will do it for you. Endorsement verification routed through Nursys is charged per license type and per destination board, so two licenses into two states is four charges, not one.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Professional Nursing Law, 63 P.S. § 211 et seq.",
        "url": "https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dos/department-and-offices/bpoa/boards-commissions/nursing/acts-laws-and-regulations"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Act 68 of 2021 (Senate Bill 115)",
        "url": "https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/LI/uconsCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&yr=2021&sessInd=0&smthLwInd=0&act=68",
        "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",
      "slug": "puerto-rico",
      "compactStatus": "non_compact",
      "board": {
        "name": "Puerto Rico Board of Nurse Examiners",
        "url": "https://www.salud.pr.gov/CMS/126"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "ORCPS — Registro de Profesionales de la Salud",
        "url": "https://orcps.salud.pr.gov/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Puerto Rico separates issuing from verifying, and the split is by FUNCTION rather than by credential. The Junta Examinadora de Enfermería licenses; the Oficina de Reglamentación y Certificación de los Profesionales de la Salud (ORCPS) keeps the registry and issues the verification — so a request sent to the board is at the wrong office, and the board is not obviously the wrong place to send it. Ask for a “Certificación de Good Standing”, which is the name the portal uses. Note also that permanent licenses carry a three-year recertification tied to registry enrollment, so a license can be validly issued and still lapse on a cycle that has no mainland equivalent. Primary material is in Spanish; the English term you know may return nothing.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Ley para Regular la Práctica de la Enfermería en Puerto Rico, 20 L.P.R.A. ch. 9A (board powers at § 204f)",
        "url": "https://law.justia.com/codes/puerto-rico/2020/titulo-20/capitulo-9a/204f/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "none"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/puerto-rico"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Rhode Island",
      "slug": "rhode-island",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Rhode Island Board of Nurse Registration & Nursing Education",
        "url": "https://health.ri.gov/licensing/nurses"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Rhode Island Department of Health licensee search",
        "url": "https://health.ri.gov/find/licensees/index.php"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Free lookup showing disciplinary actions and orders, plus downloadable licensee lists that include contact details — more than the bulk exports Iowa and Oklahoma publish, which stop at status. Rhode Island also splits its outbound paperwork by destination: it publishes a verification form explicitly labelled for NON-Nursys states, so which form you need depends on where the license is going rather than on Rhode Island.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "R.I. Gen. Laws § 5-34 (Nurse Practice Act); scope adopted under § 5-34-7(3)",
        "url": "https://health.ri.gov/licensing/nurses"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "R.I. Gen. Laws ch. 5-34.3 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE5/5-34.3/",
        "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",
      "slug": "south-carolina",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "South Carolina Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://llr.sc.gov/nurse/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "South Carolina LLR Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://llr.sc.gov/nurse/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "For a single nurse, Nursys QuickConfirm covers South Carolina. For volume, LLR sells a Bulk License Verification service that takes a list of license numbers and returns status and expiry for each. That is the paid mirror of Iowa, which publishes the equivalent as free public rosters — so an employer credentialing across both states pays for one and not the other, for the same task.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "S.C. Code tit. 40, ch. 33 (Nurses); discipline at § 40-33-110",
        "url": "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t40c033.php"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "S.C. Code Ann. §§ 40-33-1300 to 40-33-1365 (tit. 40, ch. 33, art. 15 — Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t40c033.php",
        "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",
      "slug": "south-dakota",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "South Dakota Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.sdbon.org/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "South Dakota Board of Nursing license verification",
        "url": "https://sdbon.boardsofnursing.org/licenselookup"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Conventional public verification, with no fee gate, credential split or identifier requirement found in this review — the second such case after Utah. Structurally, South Dakota sits its board inside the Department of Health rather than running a standalone agency, the same arrangement as Hawaii under DCCA and Georgia under the Secretary of State. That affects where you look, not what you get.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "South Dakota nursing licensure law (Board of Nursing, DOH)",
        "url": "https://www.sdbon.org/laws-rules/NPA.asp"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "S.D. Codified Laws §§ 36-9-98 to 36-9-99 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/36-9-98",
        "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",
      "slug": "tennessee",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Tennessee Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.tn.gov/health/licensure/nurs.html"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Tennessee Department of Health licensure verification",
        "url": "https://internet.health.tn.gov/Licensure/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Tennessee has designated Nursys a primary-source equivalent, so either is acceptable for license status — but the state system additionally returns disciplinary profile and abuse-registry data that a Nursys lookup does not, which matters if you are credentialing rather than just confirming a license.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "T.C.A. tit. 63, ch. 7 (Nursing); RNs at §§ 63-7-103, -104, LPNs at §§ 63-7-108, -109",
        "url": "https://www.tn.gov/health/licensure/nurs.html"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "unverified"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/tennessee"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Texas",
      "slug": "texas",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Texas Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.bon.texas.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Texas BON license verification",
        "url": "https://www.bon.texas.gov/licensure_verification.asp"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Texas runs two different things under the word “verification”, and confusing them costs weeks. The online lookup answers “is this license real and current” for an employer, immediately. But board-to-board verification for ENDORSEMENT into another state is a separate paper process — a Verification of Registered/Professional Nurse Licensure form, returned to the board by email — not something the public lookup produces. If another state has asked you for verification of your Texas license, a printout of the online result is unlikely to be what they meant.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Tex. Occ. Code ch. 301 (Nursing Practice Act)",
        "url": "https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.301.htm"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Tex. Occ. Code ch. 304 (§§ 304.001–304.010)",
        "url": "https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.304.htm",
        "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",
      "slug": "us-virgin-islands",
      "compactStatus": "enacted_awaiting_implementation",
      "board": {
        "name": "Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure",
        "url": "http://vibnl.vi.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "VIBNL License Verification Portal (and Nursys Quick Confirm)",
        "url": "https://vibnl.vi.gov/licensing/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "The most useful board page in this entire survey, for a reason that has nothing to do with the Virgin Islands. VIBNL is the only board we found that publishes what to do when a lookup returns NOTHING: it names the escalation path — email the board at vinurseinfo@bnl.vi.gov, or file a missing-record request with the Nursys helpdesk. Everywhere else the empty result is a dead end you are left to interpret, which is exactly how it gets misread as “no license”. Treat this as the template for what to ask any board for. Practically: RN and LPN verify on both the VIBNL portal and Nursys; APRN and CNA verify on the VIBNL portal, so an empty Nursys result for those two is the wrong system, not a missing credential.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Virgin Islands Board of Nurse Licensure — licensing authority and requirements",
        "url": "https://vibnl.vi.gov/licensing/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "unverified"
      },
      "statePage": "https://www.compactstates.com/states/us-virgin-islands"
    },
    {
      "jurisdiction": "Utah",
      "slug": "utah",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Utah Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://commerce.utah.gov/dopl/nursing/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Utah DOPL license lookup & verification",
        "url": "https://dopl.utah.gov/nursing/"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Conventional: a public online lookup through the Division of Professional Licensing, with no fee gate, credential split, identifier requirement or terminology trap found in this review. Recorded as unremarkable on purpose — after thirty-five states of exceptions it is worth knowing which ones simply work the way you would expect.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Utah nursing licensure law (DOPL)",
        "url": "https://dopl.utah.gov/nursing/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Utah Code tit. 58, ch. 31e (Nurse Licensure Compact — Revised), § 58-31e-102",
        "url": "https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title58/Chapter31e/58-31e-S101.html",
        "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",
      "slug": "vermont",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Vermont Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://sos.vermont.gov/nursing/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Vermont OPR — Find a Professional",
        "url": "https://sos.vermont.gov/opr/find-a-professional"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Unusually generous: the free online lookup is itself the OFFICIAL verification, and it is primary source for education, training and examination history — detail most states charge for or omit. A mailed hard copy still costs a fee, but Vermont publishes a turnaround of 3–5 business days for it, making Vermont the second state found to commit to a figure at all (after Montana). Vermont regulates nursing through the Secretary of State’s Office of Professional Regulation rather than a standalone board.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Vermont nursing statutes & rules (OPR, Secretary of State)",
        "url": "https://sos.vermont.gov/nursing/statutes-rules-resources"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "26 V.S.A. ch. 28, subch. 5 (Nurse Licensure Compact); enacted by Act 64 of 2021",
        "url": "https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/chapter/26/028",
        "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",
      "slug": "virginia",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Virginia Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://www.dhp.virginia.gov/boards/nursing/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Virginia DHP License Lookup",
        "url": "https://dhp.virginiainteractive.org/lookup/index"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Two things employers should know. Virginia states outright that this lookup IS primary-source verification of the credential and meets Joint Commission requirements — few boards commit to that in writing, and it means a printed result can stand as the file copy. But the free tier is RATE-LIMITED, and it is sized for occasional individual checks. Run a batch of hires through it and you will hit an error that looks like a broken system or a missing nurse; it is neither. Volume users are expected to take the subscription or the bulk license-database download. Covers all 62 professions DHP regulates, not just nursing.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Va. Code tit. 54.1, ch. 30 (Nursing)",
        "url": "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title54.1/chapter30/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Va. Code tit. 54.1, ch. 30, art. 6.1 (§ 54.1-3040.2 et seq.)",
        "url": "https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacodefull/title54.1/chapter30/article6.1/",
        "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",
      "slug": "washington",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Washington State Board of Nursing (WABON)",
        "url": "https://nursing.wa.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Washington DOH Provider Credential Search",
        "url": "https://doh.wa.gov/licenses-permits-and-certificates/provider-credential-or-facility-search"
      },
      "verificationNote": "Washington splits by LICENSE TYPE rather than credential: a Washington single-state license is verified through the DOH Provider Credential Search, while a multistate license issued by another state is verified through Nursys. Note the board will not verify a credential that is pending, closed, or holding only a temporary practice permit — so a genuinely new hire on a temporary permit will not return a verification, which is a timing problem rather than a red flag.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "RCW ch. 18.79 (Nursing Care)",
        "url": "https://nursing.wa.gov/licensing"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Substitute Senate Bill 5499 (2023)",
        "url": "https://nursing.wa.gov/msl",
        "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",
      "slug": "west-virginia",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "West Virginia RN Board / LPN Board",
        "url": "https://wvrnboard.wv.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "WV RN Board (registered nurses)",
        "url": "https://wvrnboard.wv.gov/licensing/pages/default.aspx"
      },
      "verificationNote": "The one state where you must know the credential BEFORE choosing where to look. West Virginia runs two independent boards with two separate lookups: the RN Board at wvrnboard.wv.gov, and the Board of Examiners for Licensed Practical Nurses at lpnboard.wv.gov. Searching the RN board for an LPN returns nothing — not because the license is invalid, but because it lives in a different agency. The RN board also regulates dialysis technicians, and notes that not every license type it holds is available through online verification. Our own board link for West Virginia points at the RN board, so treat it as RN-only.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "W. Va. Code art. 30-7 (registered nurses); art. 30-7A (licensed practical nurses)",
        "url": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/30-7-3/"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "W. Va. Code art. 30-7F (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://code.wvlegislature.gov/30-7F/",
        "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",
      "slug": "wisconsin",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Wisconsin Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/Pages/BoardsCouncils/Nursing/default.aspx"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Wisconsin DSPS credential search",
        "url": "https://dsps.wi.gov/pages/Professions/RN/Default.aspx"
      },
      "verificationNote": "The Wisconsin detail that strands people is the application-status lookup: it requires the applicant’s ten-digit PAR number, which only the applicant has. An employer or a school waiting on a pending license cannot check progress independently — ask the nurse for the PAR number at the point you start waiting, not once the wait has become a problem. Incoming verification is nurse-initiated too: the nurse completes the Nursys licensure-verification process, pays, and designates Wisconsin as the recipient, so nothing moves until they act. Wisconsin also runs a distinct single-state RN/LPN application separate from the multistate route, so “I applied in Wisconsin” does not by itself mean a multistate license was requested.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "Wis. Stat. ch. 441 (Board of Nursing); Wis. Admin. Code ch. N 2 (Licensure)",
        "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/441"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "Wis. Stat. § 441.51 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/441",
        "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",
      "slug": "wyoming",
      "compactStatus": "full",
      "board": {
        "name": "Wyoming State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://wsbn.wyo.gov/"
      },
      "lookup": {
        "label": "Wyoming State Board of Nursing",
        "url": "https://wybn.boardsofnursing.org/licenselookup"
      },
      "verificationNote": "One caution specific to Wyoming: the board has moved domains, and its own older rule documents still cite state.wy.us addresses that no longer resolve. If you reach a dead link from an official-looking Wyoming PDF, the document is out of date rather than the board being unreachable — start from wsbn.wyo.gov instead. The board licenses registered nurses, practical nurses, advanced practice registered nurses and nursing assistants.",
      "nursePracticeAct": {
        "citation": "W.S. ch. 33-21 (Wyoming Nurse Practice Act); board licensing authority at W.S. 33-21-122",
        "url": "https://www.wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title33.pdf"
      },
      "nlcStatute": {
        "status": "cited",
        "citation": "W.S. §§ 33-21-201 to 33-21-202 (Nurse Licensure Compact)",
        "url": "https://www.wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title33.pdf",
        "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"
    }
  ]
}