Senate Bill No. 2173 Summary

• Creates the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, allowing eligible physicians to obtain expedited medical licenses in multiple member states through a streamlined process.

• Establishes eligibility requirements for physicians including graduation from accredited medical schools, passing USMLE or COMLEX-USA exams, completed graduate medical education, specialty certification, valid unrestricted licenses, and no criminal convictions or license discipline history.

• Creates the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission with voting representatives from each member state to administer the compact, establish rules, collect fees, and oversee disciplinary actions.

• Requires member state medical boards to report public actions, complaints, and disciplinary information about compact-licensed physicians to the commission and to each other, with automatic license suspension in other states if a physician's license is revoked in their state of principal license.

• Specifies that fees levied by the compact commission must be paid by North Dakota's medical board through its own funding mechanism rather than requesting general fund appropriations.