§ 3022. Purpose
(a) Whereas, states license psychologists, in order to protect the public through verification
of education, training, and experience and ensure accountability for professional
practice;
(b) Whereas, this Compact is intended to regulate the day to day practice of telepsychology,
which is the provision of psychological services using telecommunication technologies,
by psychologists across state boundaries in the performance of their psychological
practice as assigned by an appropriate authority;
(c) Whereas, this Compact is intended to regulate the temporary in-person, face-to-face
practice of psychology by psychologists across state boundaries for 30 days within
a calendar year in the performance of their psychological practice as assigned by
an appropriate authority;
(d) Whereas, this Compact is intended to authorize state psychology regulatory authorities
to afford legal recognition, in a manner consistent with the terms of the Compact,
to psychologists licensed in another state;
(e) Whereas, this Compact recognizes that states have a vested interest in protecting
the public’s health and safety through their licensing and regulation of psychologists
and that such state regulation will best protect public health and safety;
(f) Whereas, this Compact does not apply when a psychologist is licensed in both the Home
and Receiving States;
(g) Whereas, this Compact does not apply to permanent in-person, face-to-face practice,
it does allow for authorization of temporary psychological practice; and
(h) Consistent with these principles, this Compact is designed to achieve the following
purposes and objectives:
(1) increase public access to professional psychological services by allowing for telepsychological
practice across state lines as well as temporary in-person, face-to-face services
into a state in which the psychologist is not licensed to practice psychology;
(2) enhance the states’ ability to protect the public’s health and safety, especially
client and patient safety;
(3) encourage the cooperation of Compact states in the areas of psychology licensure and
regulation;
(4) facilitate the exchange of information between Compact states regarding psychologist
licensure, adverse actions, and disciplinary history;
(5) promote compliance with the laws governing psychological practice in each Compact
state; and
(6) invest all Compact states with the authority to hold licensed psychologists accountable
through the mutual recognition of Compact state licenses. (Added 2023, No. 37, § 1, eff. July 1, 2024.)