Vermont Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1647f
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 26 Sec. 1647f
- Adverse action: means any administrative, civil, equitable, or criminal action permitted by a state's laws that is imposed by a licensing board or other authority against a nurse, including actions against an individual's license or multistate licensure privilege, such as revocation, suspension, probation, monitoring of the licensee, limitation on the licensee's practice, or any other encumbrance on licensure affecting a nurse's authorization to practice, including issuance of a cease and desist action. See
- Alternative program: means a nondisciplinary monitoring program approved by a licensing board. See
- Board: means the Vermont State Board of Nursing. See
- Commission: means the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators. See
- Coordinated licensure information system: means an integrated process for collecting, storing, and sharing information on nurse licensure and enforcement activities related to nurse licensure laws that is administered by a nonprofit organization composed of and controlled by licensing boards. See
- Current significant investigative information: means :
- Licensing board: means a party state's regulatory body responsible for issuing nurse licenses. See
- Nurse: means RN or LPN/VN, as those terms are defined by each party state's practice laws. See
- Party state: means any state that has adopted this Compact. See
- State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States and the District of Columbia. See
§ 1647f. Coordinated licensure information system
(a) All party states shall participate in a coordinated licensure information system of all licensed RNs and LPNs/VNs. This system will include information on the licensure and disciplinary history of each nurse, as submitted by party states, to assist in the coordination of nurse licensure and enforcement efforts.
(b) The Commission, in consultation with the administrator of the coordinated licensure information system, shall formulate necessary and proper procedures for the identification, collection, and exchange of information under this Compact.
(c) All licensing boards shall promptly report to the coordinated licensure information system any adverse action, current significant investigative information, denials of applications with the reasons for such denials, and nurse participation in alternative programs known to the licensing board regardless of whether such participation is deemed nonpublic or confidential under state law.
(d) Current significant investigative information and participation in nonpublic or confidential alternative programs shall be transmitted through the coordinated licensure information system only to party state licensing boards.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all party state licensing boards contributing information to the coordinated licensure information system may designate information that may not be shared with non-party states or disclosed to other entities or individuals without the express permission of the contributing state.
(f) Any personally identifiable information obtained from the coordinated licensure information system by a party state licensing board shall not be shared with non-party states or disclosed to other entities or individuals except to the extent permitted by the laws of the party state contributing the information.
(g) Any information contributed to the coordinated licensure information system that is subsequently required to be expunged by the laws of the party state contributing that information shall also be expunged from the coordinated licensure information system.
(h) The Compact administrator of each party state shall furnish a uniform data set to the Compact administrator of each other party state, which shall include, at a minimum:
(1) identifying information;
(2) licensure data;
(3) information related to alternative program participation; and
(4) other information that may facilitate the administration of this Compact, as determined by Commission rules.
(i) The Compact administrator of a party state shall provide all investigative documents and information requested by another party state. (Added 2021, No. 64, § 1, eff. Feb. 1, 2022.)