Providing an interstate medical licensure compact in order to strengthen health care access; specifying purpose; defining terms; specifying physician eligibility; requiring state of principal license designation by physicians; providing for physician application and issuance of expedited licensure; requiring fees for expedited licensure; requiring renewal and continued participation; requiring a coordinated information system; providing for joint investigations; allowing disciplinary actions; establishing the interstate medical licensure compact commission and providing for commission powers and duties, financial powers, organization and operation, and rulemaking functions; specifying compact oversight and enforcement; specifying grounds for default; requiring commission dispute resolution; specifying member states, effective date, amendment, withdrawal, dissolution, severability and construction, binding effect, and compact application to other laws
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