73-15-23 - Executive director of board is "head of nurse licensing board" under compact; withdrawal from compact; effective date of compact.
§ 73-15-23. Executive director of board is "head of nurse licensing board" under compact; withdrawal from compact; effective date of compact.
(1) The term "head of the nurse licensing board," as referred to in Article VIII of the Nurse Licensure Compact, shall mean the Executive Director of the Mississippi Board of Nursing.
(2) The Governor may withdraw this state from the Nurse Licensure Compact if the Board of Nursing notifies the Governor that a state that is a party to the compact changed, after July 1, 2001, the state's requirements for licensing a nurse and that the state's requirements, as changed, are substantially lower than the requirements for licensing a nurse in this state.
(3) The effective date of the Nurse Licensure Compact shall be July 1, 2001.
Sources: Laws, 2000, ch. 482, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 2000.