HB1493 Summary

• Enacts the Dietitian Licensure Compact, allowing Mississippi to join other states in a multistate agreement that enables licensed dietitians to practice across state lines through a "compact privilege" without obtaining separate licenses in each state.

• Establishes the Dietitian Licensure Compact Commission as a joint government agency composed of member states, with powers to adopt rules, maintain a data system for tracking licensure and disciplinary information, and oversee interstate dietitian practice.

• Requires applicants for compact privilege to hold an unencumbered license in their home state, meet specific education and examination requirements (registered dietitian status or completion of accredited education, supervised practice, and national exam), and comply with remote state jurisprudence requirements.

• Allows remote states to take adverse actions against a licensee's compact privilege within that state, while only the home state may take action against a licensee's home state license; adverse actions in the home state revoke all compact privileges in other states.

• Amends Mississippi Code sections 73-10-3, 73-10-7, and 73-10-15 to recognize compact privilege holders as licensed dietitians and allow nonresident dietitians with compact privileges to practice without the five-day-per-year limitation; effective July 1, 2025.