The Connecticut Board of Examiners of Embalmers and Funeral Directors may, upon the affirmative vote of a majority of its members, enter into an agreement with the corresponding licensing authority of any other state competent to enter into such agreement which agreement shall be in substantially the following form: “We, the undersigned representatives of the various states, by and through their respective licensing authorities, hereby jointly agree that a person duly registered and licensed as a funeral director or embalmer in either one of the several states may be licensed as a funeral director or embalmer in the other state upon payment of the appropriate license fee without the necessity of completing an apprenticeship period.”