TITLE 56

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND WELFARE

CHAPTER 10

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELFARE

56-1013M.  coordinated database. (1) The commission shall provide for the development and maintenance of a coordinated database and reporting system containing licensure, adverse action and significant investigatory information on all licensed individuals in member states.

(2)  Notwithstanding any other provision of state law to the contrary, a member state shall submit a uniform data set to the coordinated database on all individuals to whom this compact is applicable as required by the rules of the commission, including:

(a)  Identifying information;

(b)  Licensure data;

(c)  Significant investigatory information;

(d)  Adverse actions against an individual’s license;

(e)  An indicator that an individual’s privilege to practice is restricted, suspended or revoked;

(f)  Nonconfidential information related to alternative program participation;

(g)  Any denial of application for licensure, and the reason(s) for such denial; and

(h)  Other information that may facilitate the administration of this compact, as determined by the rules of the commission.

(3)  The coordinated database administrator shall promptly notify all member states of any adverse action taken against, or significant investigative information on, any individual in a member state.

(4)  Member states contributing information to the coordinated database may designate information that may not be shared with the public without the express permission of the contributing state.

(5)  Any information submitted to the coordinated database that is subsequently required to be expunged by the laws of the member state contributing the information shall be removed from the coordinated database.

History:

[56-1013M, added 2016, ch. 60, sec. 1, p. 191.]