SB167 Summary: Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact

• Establishes the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact, allowing occupational therapists and assistants to practice across member states through a "compact privilege" without requiring separate licenses in each state.

• Creates the Occupational Therapy Compact Commission with representatives from each member state to establish rules, maintain a coordinated licensure database, investigate complaints, and coordinate disciplinary actions.

• Sets eligibility requirements for compact privilege including holding a valid unencumbered home state license, passing criminal background checks, meeting jurisprudence requirements, and having no adverse actions within the past two years.

• Grants remote states authority to take adverse actions against licensees practicing under compact privilege within their borders, while home states retain exclusive power over their own-issued licenses.

• Becomes effective when enacted by the 10th member state, with the compact commission initially limited to assembly and rulemaking powers before full implementation.