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PA HB2030

Bill

Status

Introduced

11/17/2025

Primary Sponsor

Manuel Guzman

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes Pennsylvania to join the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Interstate Compact, allowing APRNs licensed in their home state to practice in all party states under a multistate licensure privilege without obtaining additional state licenses.

  • Establishes uniform licensure requirements including completion of an accredited graduate-level APRN program, national certification, at least 2,080 hours of APRN practice, FBI fingerprint-based background checks, and no felony convictions.

  • Creates the Interstate Commission of APRN Compact Administrators as a joint public agency to coordinate implementation, promulgate binding rules, and facilitate information sharing through a coordinated licensure information system.

  • Grants multistate license holders prescriptive authority for non-controlled drugs across party states, while requiring APRNs to meet each state's specific requirements for controlled substance prescribing authority.

  • Requires the compact to take effect 60 days after enactment, becoming operative when the Governor executes the compact and at least one other state ratifies it, with the Secretary of the Commonwealth publishing notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

Legislative Description

Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to join the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Interstate Compact; providing for the form of the compact; and imposing additional powers and duties on the Governor and the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Last Action

Referred to Professional Licensure

11/17/2025

Committee Referrals

Professional Licensure11/17/2025

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