HF 729 Summary

• Creates a Physical Therapy Licensure Compact to allow physical therapists and assistants to practice across member states under a "compact privilege" based on licensure in their home state.

• Establishes the Physical Therapy Compact Commission as a multi-state administrative body with authority to promulgate rules, maintain a data system tracking licensures and adverse actions, and oversee member state compliance.

• Requires member states to implement criminal background checks using FBI records, utilize recognized national examinations, maintain continuing competence requirements, and participate in the commission's database system.

• Grants active duty military members and their spouses flexibility to designate their home state as their home of record, permanent change of station state, or current residence state.

• Compact becomes effective when the tenth member state enacts it; member states may withdraw after six months' notice and remain subject to investigative and adverse action reporting requirements after withdrawal.