Rhode Island § 5-48.3-12 § 5-48.3-12. Date of implementation of the interstate commission for audiology and speech-language pathology practice and associated rules, withdrawal, and amendment.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 5-48.3-12 — § 5-48.3-12. Date of implementation of the interstate commission for audiology and speech-language pathology practice and associated rules, withdrawal, and amendment.

Rhode Island·Title 5 Businesses and Professions·Ch. 5-48.3 Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate Compact

§ 5-48.3-12. Date of implementation of the interstate commission for audiology and speech-language
               pathology 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

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§ 5-48.3-12. Date of implementation of the interstate commission for audiology and speech-language pathology 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 the rules 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 (6) months after enactment of the repealing statute.

(2) Withdrawal shall not affect the continuing requirement of the withdrawing state's audiology or speech-language pathology 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 chapter or the compact shall be construed to invalidate or prevent any audiology or speech-language pathology licensure agreement or other cooperative arrangement between a member state and a non-member 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.

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