# RCW 18.80.090: RCW 18.80.090: Effective date—Withdrawal—Amendment

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S090

## Section

- **Citation:** RCW 18.80.090
- **Heading:** RCW 18.80.090: Effective date—Withdrawal—Amendment
- **Jurisdiction:** Washington
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** Washington Code / Title 18 / Chapter 80 / Section 090

## Text

(1) This compact shall become effective and binding on the earlier of the date of legislative enactment of this compact into law by no less than twenty-six states or December 31, 2018. All party states to this compact, that also were parties to the prior nurse licensure compact, superseded by this compact, shall be deemed to have withdrawn from the prior compact within six months after the effective date of this compact. (2) Each party state to this compact shall continue to recognize a nurse's multistate licensure privilege to practice in that party state issued under the prior compact until such party state has withdrawn from the prior compact. (3) Any party state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repealing the same. A party state's withdrawal shall not take effect until six months after enactment of the repealing statute. (4) A party state's withdrawal or termination shall not affect the continuing requirement of the withdrawing or terminated state's licensing board to report adverse actions and significant investigations occurring prior to the effective date of such withdrawal or termination. (5) Nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to invalidate or prevent any nurse licensure agreement or other cooperative arrangement between a party state and a nonparty state that is made in accordance with the other provisions of this compact. (6) This compact may be amended by the party states. No amendment to this compact shall become effective and binding upon the party states unless and until it is enacted into the laws of all party states. (7) Representatives of nonparty states to this compact shall be invited to participate in the activities of the interstate commission, on a nonvoting basis, prior to the adoption of this compact by all states.

## Nearby sections

- [RCW 18.80.010 RCW 18.80.010: Definitions.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S010.md)
- [RCW 18.80.020 RCW 18.80.020: General provisions—Jurisdiction.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S020.md)
- [RCW 18.80.030 RCW 18.80.030: Application for licensure in a party state.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S030.md)
- [RCW 18.80.060 RCW 18.80.060: Interstate commission of nurse licensure compact administrators—Establishment.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S060.md)
- [RCW 18.80.070 RCW 18.80.070: Rule making.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S070.md)
- [RCW 18.80.080 RCW 18.80.080: Oversight—Dispute resolution—Enforcement.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S080.md)
- [RCW 18.80.090 RCW 18.80.090: Effective date—Withdrawal—Amendment.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S090.md)
- [RCW 18.80.100 RCW 18.80.100: Construction—Severability.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S100.md)
- [RCW 18.80.900 RCW 18.80.900: Short title—2023 c 123.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S900.md)
- [RCW 46.80.005 RCW 46.80.005: Legislative declaration.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S005.md)
- [RCW 46.80.040 RCW 46.80.040: Issuance of license—Fee.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S040.md)
- [RCW 46.80.050 RCW 46.80.050: Expiration, renewal—Fee.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_WA_T18_C80_S050.md)

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