3. Have a mechanism in place for receiving and investigating complaints against licensees and license applicants.

4. Notify the commission, in compliance with the terms of this compact and commission rules, of any adverse action against a licensee or license applicant and the existence of significant investigative information regarding a licensee or license applicant.

5. Fully implement a criminal background check requirement, within a time frame established by commission rule, by its licensing board receiving the results of a criminal background check and reporting to the commission whether the license applicant has been granted a license.

6. Comply with the rules of the compact commission.

7. Utilize passage of a recognized national exam such as the NCCPA PANCE as a requirement for PA licensure.

8. Grant the compact privilege to a holder of a qualifying license in a participating state.

(b) Nothing in this compact prohibits a participating state from charging a fee for granting the compact privilege.

(4) Compact privilege. (a) To exercise the compact privilege, a licensee must:

1. Have graduated from a PA program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. or other programs authorized by commission rule.

2. Hold current NCCPA certification.

3. Have no felony or misdemeanor conviction.

4. Have never had a controlled substance license, permit, or registration suspended or revoked by a state or by the United States drug enforcement administration.

5. Have a unique identifier as determined by commission rule.

6. Hold a qualifying license.

7. Have had no revocation of a license or limitation or restriction on any license currently held due to an adverse action.

8. If a licensee has had a limitation or restriction on a license or compact privilege due to an adverse action, two years must have elapsed from the date on which the license or compact privilege is no longer limited or restricted due to the adverse action.

9. If a compact privilege has been revoked or is limited or restricted in a participating state for conduct that would not be a basis for disciplinary action in a participating state in which the licensee is practicing or applying to practice under a compact privilege, that participating state shall have the discretion not to consider such action as an adverse action requiring the denial or removal of a compact privilege in that state.

10. Notify the compact commission that the licensee is seeking the compact privilege in a remote state.

11. Meet any jurisprudence requirement of a remote state in which the licensee is seeking to practice under the compact privilege and pay any fees applicable to satisfying the jurisprudence requirement.

12. Report to the commission any adverse action taken by a nonparticipating state within thirty (30) days after the action is taken.

(b) The compact privilege is valid until the expiration or revocation of the qualifying license unless terminated pursuant to an adverse action. The licensee must also comply with all of the requirements of par. (a) above to maintain the compact privilege in a remote state. If the participating state takes adverse action against a qualifying license, the licensee shall lose the compact privilege in any remote state in which the licensee has a compact privilege until all of the following occur:

1. The license is no longer limited or restricted; and

2. Two (2) years have elapsed from the date on which the license is no longer limited or restricted due to the adverse action.

(c) Once a restricted or limited license satisfies the requirements of par. (b) 1. and 2., the licensee must meet the requirements of par. (a) to obtain a compact privilege in any remote state.

(d) For each remote state in which a PA seeks authority to prescribe controlled substances, the PA shall satisfy all requirements imposed by such state in granting or renewing such authority.

(5) Designation of the state from which licensee is applying for a compact privilege. Upon a licensee’s application for a compact privilege, the licensee shall identify to the commission the participating state from which the licensee is applying, in accordance with applicable rules adopted by the commission, and subject to the following requirements:

(a) When applying for a compact privilege, the licensee shall provide the commission with the address of the licensee’s primary residence and thereafter shall immediately report to the commission any change in the address of the licensee’s primary residence.

(b) When applying for a compact privilege, the licensee is required to consent to accept service of process by mail at the licensee’s primary residence on file with the commission with respect to any action brought against the licensee by the commission or a participating state, including a subpoena, with respect to any action brought or investigation conducted by the commission or a participating state.