SB3513 Summary

• Amends the Nurse Practice Act to add Article 80, ratifying the Nurse Licensure Compact, enabling registered nurses and licensed practical nurses to practice across multiple party states under a multistate licensure privilege system.

• Establishes mutual recognition of nursing licenses among party states, allowing nurses licensed in their home state to practice in remote states while remaining subject to each state's practice laws where care is rendered.

• Creates a coordinated licensure information system administered by a non-profit organization to collect and share nurse licensure and disciplinary information among party states for enforcement coordination.

• Grants party states authority to take adverse actions against nurses' multistate licensure privileges while reserving to the home state the exclusive power to discipline a nurse's actual license.

• Updates Illinois nursing definitions and licensure qualifications to recognize the "privilege to practice" status for nurses operating under the Compact and requires employers to report multistate nurses providing direct patient care in Illinois.