The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
Subchapter
003A
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INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPACT
(Cite as: 26 V.S.A. § 1420a)
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§ 1420a. Purpose
In order to strengthen access to health care, and in recognition of the advances in
the delivery of health care, the member states of the Interstate Medical Licensure
Compact have allied in common purpose to develop a comprehensive process that complements
the existing licensing and regulatory authority of state medical boards and provides
a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in multiple states,
thereby enhancing the portability of a medical license and ensuring the safety of
patients. The Compact creates another pathway for licensure and does not otherwise
change a state’s existing Medical Practice Act. The Compact also adopts the prevailing
standard for licensure and affirms that the practice of medicine occurs where the
patient is located at the time of the physician-patient encounter, and therefore,
requires the physician to be under the jurisdiction of the state medical board where
the patient is located. State medical boards that participate in the Compact retain
the jurisdiction to impose an adverse action against a license to practice medicine
in that state issued to a physician through the procedures in the Compact. (Added 2017, No. 115 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2020.)