Pennsylvania has joined several interstate licensing compacts and is poised to join numerous others. Interstate compacts provide flexibility for trained professionals to practice where they want and where they are needed. However, the regulatory process in Pennsylvania to enact these licenses is long and arduous. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed Act 119, to give licensing boards the agility they need to get compacts up and running in a timely manner. The Act grants boards that are subject to an interstate licensure compact the power to promulgate temporary rules for compact implementation. Licensing boards would still be required to use the full regulatory process to establish permanent guidelines. Temporary regulations promulgated under this legislation would expire after three years.
