2015 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 40 - Professions and Occupations
CHAPTER 33 - NURSES
Section 40-33-1355. Compact; effective date; withdrawal; agreements with nonparty state; amendment.

(A) This compact becomes effective as to a state when the compact has been enacted into the laws of that state. A party state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repealing the compact, but the withdrawal does not take effect until six months after the withdrawing state has given notice of the withdrawal to the compact administrators of all other party states.

(B) No withdrawal affects the validity or applicability of any report of adverse action taken by the licensing board of a state that remains a party to the compact if the adverse action occurred before the withdrawal.

(C) This compact does not invalidate or prevent a nurse licensure agreement or other cooperative arrangement between a party state and a nonparty state that is made in accordance with this compact.

(D) This compact may be amended by the party states; however, an amendment to this compact does not become effective and binding upon the party states unless and until it is enacted into the laws of all party states.

HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 87, Section 2.

Editor's Note

2005 Act No. 87, Section 7, provides as follows:

"This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and applies to nursing licenses applied for after September 30, 2006."