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
005
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PHYSICAL THERAPY LICENSURE COMPACT
(Cite as: 26 V.S.A. § 2142)
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§ 2142. Date of implementation of the Interstate Commission for physical therapy practice
and associated rules, withdrawal, and amendment
(a) The Compact shall come into effect on the date on which the Compact statute is enacted
into law in the tenth member state. The provisions, which become effective at that
time, shall be limited to the powers granted to the Commission relating to assembly
and the promulgation of rules. Thereafter, the Commission shall meet and exercise
rulemaking powers necessary to the implementation and administration of the Compact.
(b) Any state that joins the Compact subsequent to the Commission’s initial adoption of
the rules shall be subject to the rules as they exist on the date on which the Compact
becomes law in that state. Any rule that has been previously adopted by the Commission
shall have the full force and effect of law on the day the Compact becomes law in
that state.
(c) Any member state may withdraw from this Compact by enacting a statute repealing the
same.
(1) A member state’s withdrawal shall not take effect until six months after enactment
of the repealing statute.
(2) Withdrawal shall not affect the continuing requirement of the withdrawing state’s
physical therapy licensing board to comply with the investigative and adverse action
reporting requirements of this act prior to the effective date of withdrawal.
(d) Nothing contained in this Compact shall be construed to invalidate or prevent any
physical therapy licensure agreement or other cooperative arrangement between a member
state and a nonmember state that does not conflict with the provisions of this Compact.
(e) This Compact may be amended by the member states. No amendment to this Compact shall
become effective and binding upon any member state until it is enacted into the laws
of all member states. (Added 2023, No. 35, § 1, eff. July 1, 2024.)