What compact privilege is
A multistate license from your primary state of residence carries compact privilege — the authority to practice in other compact states without licensing separately in each. It only exists between states that are live in the Nurse Licensure Compact.
Practicing in Indiana on privilege
Because Indiana participates, an active multistate license lets you work in Indiana — common for travel nurses and telehealth. Privilege follows the patient’s location and your home-state license staying active and multistate.
The law that governs this in Indiana
Working in Indiana on another state’s license is practice in Indiana, so it is Indiana’s own nurse practice act that defines what you may do and the Indiana State Board of Nursing that applies it. That act is Ind. Code tit. 25, art. 23 (Nurses).
The compact itself is separate law. Indiana adopted it at Ind. Code tit. 25, art. 42 (Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact); residence-change duties at IC 25-42-4-3 and 25-42-4-4, which is what allows a multistate license issued elsewhere to reach Indiana at all — the practice act still decides what you may do once it does.
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.
Confirm before you rely on it
License status changes and the compact evolves. Confirm your own license type on Nursys and check Indiana’s current rules with the Indiana State Board of Nursing. CompactStates.com is an independent guide, not a licensing authority.
Since when has a compact license worked in Indiana?
Nurses holding another state’s multistate license have been able to practice in Indiana since July 1, 2020. It has been a member long enough that most guidance you find will be accurate on this point.
Where a Indiana multistate license reaches
If your Indiana license is multistate — not every Indiana license is — it carries privilege into these 39 jurisdictions, because each one currently issues and honours multistate licenses. It reaches nowhere else, and a non-compact state needs its own license by endorsement.
Two conditions sit underneath this list and neither is visible on it. Your primary state of residence must actually be Indiana — privilege follows residence, not where the license was issued. And the license itself must be multistate rather than single-state, which is a fact about your record that only verification can settle.
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