The change record
Every jurisdiction page on this site carries its own change log. This page is the same record read across all of them, once a month: what the boards changed in their own documents, what this project got wrong and corrected, and what was added. Each entry is short and links to the page whose change log holds the full account.
Three kinds of entry are kept apart, because they are different facts. A board revising its document is the board's doing. A correction is an error of ours, and is called one. A difference that came from how this project's tools read a document, with the document itself unchanged, is reported as that and never as a change by the board.
Where a board changed wording that a page quotes, the superseded wording is quoted beside the current. Every date is the date a source or a capture carries. Nothing here determines anything about an application, and nothing here is legal or professional advice.
September 2026
The first issue. North Dakota raised its background-check fee, South Carolina relaunched its board's site and later corrected a telephone number on it, and four other boards revised or retired documents these pages rely on. Six errors of this project's own were corrected, the last of them on Oct 1, found while this issue was being written. By the end of the month every one of the 51 pages could be re-captured from its sources by a recorded method.
What the boards changed
North Dakota · Sep 26. The Board of Nursing's Criminal History Record Check page raised the payment to the Attorney General by three dollars and now names two forms where it named one. The page's own stamp moved from "Page Last Modified: August 6, 2026" to "Page Last Modified: September 22, 2026". The fees section now quotes the new amount.
- Was
- "Money Order, Cashier Check, or personal check for $40.00, with a current date, and must be made payable to ND Attorney General"
- Now
- "Money Order, Cashier Check, or personal check for $43.00, with a current date, and must be made payable to ND Attorney General"
- Was
- "Download and complete the Criminal History Record Check form available by clicking here (includes SFN 60688 and 62550)"
- Now
- "Download and complete the Criminal History Record Check form (SFN 60688) and the Fingerprint Identity Verification Form (SFN 62550) available by clicking here"
North Dakota's page, change log entry of Sep 26.
South Carolina · Sep 27. The nursing board's landing page corrected its telephone number. Until then it gave the number the agency's own directory lists for Accountancy, while the board information page and the agency contact page gave the board's. All three now agree.
- Was
- "Telephone: (803) 896-4770"
- Now
- "Telephone: (803) 896-4550"
South Carolina's page, change log entry of Sep 27.
South Carolina · Sep 5. The Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation relaunched the board's site. Three of the page's six sources stopped resolving: each answered with a page reading "404 - Page Not Found" while reporting success. The page was rebuilt against the replacement pages, which publish the endorsement route once per license type rather than on one page. South Carolina's page, change log entry of Sep 5.
Nebraska · Sep 3. The department reissued its endorsement application information sheet, now dated 09.01.26 where the earlier copy was dated 08.11.26. One sentence reversed which practical nurses an IV therapy requirement reaches. The revision brings the sheet into line with its own required-documents list, which has said "For LPNs who graduated before 05/01/16, proof of 8 hours of coursework in IV therapy." throughout, and which is what the page quotes.
- Was · 08.11.26
- "LPNs who graduated after May 1, 2016, need to provide evidence of completing an 8-hour didactic course or equivalent"
- Now · 09.01.26
- "LPNs who graduated before May 1, 2016, need to provide evidence of completing an 8-hour didactic course or equivalent"
Nebraska's page, change log entry of Sep 3.
Texas · Sep 3. On Aug 26 the board's endorsement page gave its practice-recency condition in two different wordings, depending on how it was fetched, and the page quoted both. On Sep 3 the second wording was gone from the page and from its markup. The page now attributes that wording to the Aug 26 capture and says the board no longer publishes it. Texas's page, change log entry of Sep 3.
North Carolina · Sep 5. The board retired its position statement on out-of-state nurses practicing in North Carolina. Its address returns 404, and the statement is gone from the board's own list of position statements. The page had used it only for the board's contact block, which the board's Our Office page now supplies. North Carolina's page, change log entry of Sep 5.
New Jersey · Sep 7. The board's PDF of its Chapter 37 rules returns 404, at its own address and at five others. The board's Statutes and Regulations page now links unofficial copies instead. Four rows that rested on the chapter now say it is not quotable from the sources reviewed. New Jersey's page, change log entry of Sep 7.
Changes that touch nothing these pages quote. Illinois removed its online-renewal instructions from the nursing page that also serves as its endorsement index (Sep 3). Idaho corrected a draft rule's date from 07/23/2023 to 07/23/2026 (Sep 3). Colorado added application previews, Montana added a reporting year to its list of reports, and Wyoming posted a notice of its renewal period (all Sep 3). Each is recorded in that page's change log.
Corrections to these pages
Six errors of this project's own. In each, the board's document said what it says now. Each is set out in full in the page's change log on the date shown. Four have one cause: pages first captured by hand in August were later re-captured by a recorded, repeatable method, and the comparison showed what the hand capture had altered.
| Page | What was wrong | What it says now |
|---|---|---|
| New York Sep 1 |
A quotation about refunds carried a stray asterisk inside the quotation marks. The department's page italicizes one word there, and the hand capture had turned the italics into asterisks. | The emphasis sits outside the quotation, which reads "be entitled to a partial refund". |
| Texas Sep 3 |
Nine fee quotations joined each fee's name to its amount with a space, as if the board had written them as prose. The board prints each as two cells of a table. | A vertical bar now marks each cell boundary. No amount changed. |
| Washington Sep 3 |
Eight quotations carried literal double asterisks inside the quotation marks. The board prints those words in bold; the asterisks came from the hand capture. | The quotations close before the bold words and reopen after them. What the board states is unchanged. |
| Arizona Sep 22 |
Five fee rows were quoted as label and amount joined by a space. The board prints each label and amount in separate table cells. | The five rows are given as cited facts rather than quotations. No label or amount changed. |
| District of Columbia Sep 22 |
The offices row gave an endorsement mailbox that the board's page does not display. It sits only in a staff table that the page's own markup comments out, which our capture tool read as text until Sep 5. | The row describes what the board displays: a staff table that routes endorsement applicants by the first letter of their surname. |
| South Carolina Oct 1 |
From Sep 5, the row on practising while an application is pending said no temporary license for a nurse licensed elsewhere appeared in the board's pages, and that the orientation rule was gone. The LPN licensure page published both throughout. | The row quotes the LPN page's sixty-day license, for applicants with "proof of an active nursing license from another U.S. state or jurisdiction", beside the RN page's ninety-day authorization for new graduates. |
Published and deepened
No jurisdiction was added in September. All 51 pages were already full pages at the start of the month, and Spanish pages are still 0 of 51. The work went into how the pages are kept. At the start of the month 40 of the 51 pages could be re-captured from their sources by a recorded method that produces the same text each time. By the end, all 51 could: Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin were added. The compact page's sources can now be reproduced by the same method too, which they could not before Sep 3.
Three source maps stopped linking documents their boards no longer serve, and say so instead: Maryland's licensure FAQ and Pennsylvania's temporary-practice-permit FAQ (both Sep 25, both unserved since late August). Wisconsin's map keeps the department's address for Form 2021-A102, which now redirects to the department's forms platform (Sep 25).
Where a board's documents disagree
Recorded or resolved in September, and one found on Oct 1. Both versions are reproduced on the page named, and no one reconciles them, this project included.
South Carolina, postal code. Open. The board information page gives the board's street address as "Columbia, SC 29120". The board's landing page and the agency contact page both give "Columbia, SC 29210". The page shows both.
South Carolina, telephone. Resolved Sep 27. Recorded Sep 5, when the landing page's number disagreed with the board's other two pages; see above.
South Carolina, compact membership. Recorded Sep 5. The board states its membership in the Nurse Licensure Compact three times, in three wordings, across two pages. Its own compact page is the one place that never states it.
South Carolina, temporary license. Open. Recorded Oct 1. The RN and LPN licensure pages print the same heading, "Graduate Nurse Temporary License", over two different texts citing the same statute: a ninety-day authorization for examination candidates on the RN page, and a sixty-day license for nurses licensed in another state on the LPN page. The page quotes both.
Nebraska, IV therapy. Resolved Sep 3. The instruction sheet and its own required-documents list disagreed about which practical nurses the IV therapy requirement reaches until the board reissued the sheet; see above. The page had not recorded the disagreement when it was built, and now does.
What looked like a change and was not
The review compares each fresh capture of a source with the last one held. A difference is only a difference until someone reads it, and most of September's came from this project's own tools reading an unchanged document differently. They are listed because a record that left them out would overstate how closely it watches.
Page breaks in PDFs (Sep 3). The tool that reads PDFs was told to drop page-break marks, which ran each page's running head into the sentence a break interrupted. The setting was removed and every PDF re-read. It touched the packets for Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wyoming and the compact. No quotation changed.
Hidden email addresses (Sep 3 to 4). Several boards' sites hide their addresses behind a script, and earlier captures recorded the placeholder the script leaves. The capture now decodes them. Arkansas's and Iowa's board mailboxes are now quoted, and the District of Columbia's and Georgia's captures hold real addresses. The addresses were always published.
Comments and collapsed panels (Sep 5 to 17). On Sep 5 the capture tool stopped reading markup a browser does not display, such as HTML comments. That is why the District of Columbia's forms index appeared to lose two sections and its licensing page a set of contact tables between Sep 3 and Sep 12. Both sit inside comments on the live pages, and visitors never saw them. The same change also dropped content in collapsed panels, which a reader opens with a click. The offense lists on Iowa's criminal-conviction eligibility page, and the short descriptions of its licensure routes, vanished from the Sep 15 capture for that reason. The tool was corrected on Sep 17, and the Sep 22 capture holds them again. Both are on Iowa's live pages today. Neither state changed anything.
Site templates. A stray template class name in North Dakota's earlier captures, and relabeled navigation links on South Carolina's pages, account for the rest of those two states' September differences.
Written from the pages' own change logs and from the retained captures of each source, read for this issue. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed 2026-10-01. Corrections on the record: hello@fieldassembly.net.