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FBI background-check approvals slow Kansas's rollout of interstate licensure compacts, agencies say
Summary
Multiple agencies told the committee that federal fingerprint/background-check authority and administrative steps at the KBI and compact commissions have delayed Kansas from issuing compact privileges for some professions, notably physical therapy; agencies urged legislative help to expedite approvals and fund implementation.
Agency and board officials told the Senate committee that interstate licensure compacts can speed practitioner mobility but that several practical and technical barriers have slowed the state's ability to issue compact privileges.
Susan Guile, executive director of the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, said the physical therapy compact (passed by the legislature in 2021) cannot yet be used by applicants in Kansas because the state lacked FBI approval to disseminate national criminal-history records; she said she had received notice in the week of the hearing that the FBI's review had been completed and that Kansas was working with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to finish implementation. "We received information this week…
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