The civic record
Read. Follow. Verify.Iowa Senate Bill 2339 Enacts Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact for Telehealth and Temporary Practice
Last action · March 3, 2026: Committee report, recommending passage. S.J. 457 .
Track this bill to get notified when it advances a stage. One tap to stop, anytime.
What This Bill Would Do
This bill enacts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT), allowing psychologists licensed in participating states to provide services to patients in Iowa and engage in temporary in-person practice for up to 30 days per calendar year. It establishes the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission to oversee the agreement and creates a coordinated licensure information system for sharing disciplinary data.
Licensed psychologists in compact states gain the legal authorization to treat patients across state lines via telecommunications and temporary in-person visits without obtaining a separate license in each destination state.
- Interstate compacts are formal agreements between states enacted through legislation to coordinate cross-border regulation and service delivery. context
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Psychologists
Licensed psychologists gain the legal framework to practice telepsychology and temporary in-person services across participating state boundaries while remaining subject to commission rules and multi-state disciplinary reporting.
Client-patients
Recipients of psychological services experience potentially increased access to professional care delivered via telecommunications or temporary in-person visits from providers licensed in other compact states.
State psychology regulatory authorities
State boards are granted additional investigative and subpoena authorities, mandatory data-sharing requirements with the coordinated licensure information system, and mutual recognition of licenses.
Key Facts
- Enacts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact to permit interjurisdictional telepsychology and temporary in-person, face-to-face psychological practice across member states.
- Limits temporary in-person, face-to-face practice by an out-of-state psychologist to thirty days within a calendar year.
- Establishes the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission as a joint public agency with rulemaking and enforcement powers.
- Requires psychologists exercising telepsychology or temporary practice privileges to hold an active E.Passport or Interjurisdictional Practice Certificate (IPC).
Show all 8 facts
- Mandates that home states require an identity history summary of all applicants at initial licensure, including fingerprint or biometric checks, within ten years of compact activation.
- Requires compact states to submit a uniform data set to a coordinated licensure information and reporting system regarding licensees and adverse actions.
- Grants receiving and distant states the authority to limit or revoke a psychologist's practice privileges and requires them to notify the home state and commission.
- Empowers state psychology regulatory authorities to issue subpoenas for hearings and investigations and enforce them across compact state courts.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact allow psychologists to do?
Are psychologists who practice under the compact still subject to local state laws?
What is required for a psychologist to practice telepsychology across state lines?
What else do you want to know?
News Coverage
Follow the record
Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
12 actions- Mar 3, 2026SenateCommittee report, recommending passage. S.J. 457 .
- Feb 25, 2026Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee recommends passage.
- Feb 24, 2026Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee Meeting: 02/25/2026 2:00PM Room 315.
- Feb 24, 2026SenateSubcommittee: Guth, Blake, and Green. S.J. 392 .
- Feb 24, 2026SenateCommitteeReferred to State Government. S.J. 376 .
- Feb 16, 2026SenateCommittee report, approving bill. S.J. 298 .
Show 6 earlier actions
- Feb 16, 2026SenateIntroducedIntroduced, placed on calendar. S.J. 291 .
- Feb 12, 2026Iowa LegislatureCommittee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 2339 .
- Feb 9, 2026Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee recommends passage.
- Feb 5, 2026Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee Meeting: 02/09/2026 2:00PM Room 217 Conference Room.
- Feb 5, 2026Iowa LegislatureSubcommittee: Costello, Drey, and Guth.
- Feb 4, 2026Iowa LegislatureIntroducedIntroduced, referred to Health and Human Services.
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
View official text →Lobbying Activity
No state lobbying filings in our records match this bill. Federal lobbying reports (LDA) cover Congress, so they are not listed on state bills.
Full breakdown
Who this bill affects and the strongest case for and against it, written only from the bill’s own text.
Discoveries
Patterns POLISCOPE noticed across the record. These are observations to investigate, not conclusions.
Interstate Licensing Reciprocity
The bill shifts professional regulation from single-state licensing exclusivity to a mutual recognition model administered via a national commission and coordinated database.
Connected Entities
Sources
www.legis.iowa.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance75How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
Publisher tools