What decides whether you need a new license
Two things: whether Georgia is a compact state, and whether your own license is multistate rather than single-state. Compact privilege only exists between compact states, and only a multistate license carries it. Run your exact home/assignment pairing through the compact state checker.
Practicing in Georgia on assignment
Working under privilege still means following Georgia's scope of practice and nurse practice act, and you remain accountable to the Georgia Board of Nursing while you are here. If any of the assignment is telehealth, remember licensure generally follows the patient’s location — see the Georgia telehealth guide.
The law that governs this in Georgia
Taking an assignment in Georgia is practice in Georgia, so it is Georgia’s own nurse practice act that defines what you may do and the Georgia Board of Nursing that applies it. That act is O.C.G.A. tit. 43, ch. 26 (Nurse Practice Act).
The compact itself is separate law. Georgia adopted it at O.C.G.A. tit. 43, ch. 26, art. 4 (multistate licensure / Nurse Licensure Compact), which is what allows a multistate license issued elsewhere to reach Georgia at all — the practice act still decides what you may do once it does.
Before you sign
We are an independent licensing reference — we do not list assignments, agencies, or pay rates, and nothing here is a job offer. For the wider pre-assignment checklist (contract terms, credentialing, housing), see what to check before accepting a travel assignment. Confirm licensure with the Georgia Board of Nursing.
Since when has a compact license worked in Georgia?
Nurses holding another state’s multistate license have been able to practice in Georgia since January 19, 2018. It has been a member long enough that most guidance you find will be accurate on this point.
The compact statute in Georgia: 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.