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Senate advances occupational-therapy licensure compact, flags small revenue impact and implementation costs
Summary
Lawmakers advanced H247, the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact, noting it would ease cross-state practice for occupational therapists, include a $50 remote-state privilege fee and a $180 in-state fee, carry roughly $19,000 in annual revenue loss, and require about $10,000 implementation costs to the Secretary of State.
The Vermont Senate on April 19 heard committee reports and advanced H247, which would adopt the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact to ease cross-border licensing for occupational therapists and address labor shortages.
On behalf of the Health and Welfare Committee, the reporting senator described the compact's goals: "increase the public's access to occupational therapist services through mutual recognition…
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