The states
One page per jurisdiction — fifty states and the District of Columbia — each quoting the board of nursing's own published materials: the applying board, the pathways, the fees, the temporary permit where one is stated, and the board's own words on the Nurse Licensure Compact. The compact's own materials are on a page of their own.
ALAlabama
AKAlaska
AZArizona
ARArkansas
CACalifornia
COColorado
CTConnecticut
DEDelaware
DCDistrict of Columbia
FLFlorida
GAGeorgia
HIHawaii
IDIdaho
ILIllinois
INIndiana
IAIowa
KSKansas
KYKentucky
LALouisiana
MEMaine
MDMaryland
MAMassachusetts
MIMichigan
MNMinnesota
MSMississippi
MOMissouri
MTMontana
NENebraska
NVNevada
NHNew Hampshire
NJNew Jersey
NMNew Mexico
NYNew York
NCNorth Carolina
NDNorth Dakota
OHOhio
OKOklahoma
OROregon
PAPennsylvania
RIRhode Island
SCSouth Carolina
SDSouth Dakota
TNTennessee
TXTexas
UTUtah
VTVermont
VAVirginia
WAWashington
WVWest Virginia
WIWisconsin
WYWyoming
51 of 51 pages published. Muted abbreviations aren't published yet; the difference between jurisdictions is temporarily depth, never absence.
Published pages
| Jurisdiction | Status, as the board states it | Sources last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | One board licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement and dates its own compact participation to January 1, 2020; a 180-day temporary permit is published with three bars on it, and a nurse moving a multistate license into Alabama is given 30 days of practice on the former home state's license | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Alaska | The board publishes a six-month temporary permit, the longest in this index, with no extra fee and elected by the applicant on the form; fees are itemised and totalled by the board at $375 and are identical for both levels; the existing license must be current both at application and at issue; and the instructions warn that a copy of the form obtained anywhere but from the division may be outdated or unofficial | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Arizona | The state board licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement and states "ARIZONA IS A COMPACT STATE."; a resident of another compact state is told not to apply unless declaring Arizona as primary residency | Aug 29, 2026 |
| Arkansas | The state board, whose pages sit inside the Department of Health, licenses RNs, LPNs and psychiatric technician nurses; it states "Temporary permits may be issued to qualified RN and LPN endorsement applicants holding current licensure in other states." with no duration published and a $30 line on the fee schedule, and its compact page is the longest treatment of the compact any board in this collection publishes | Sep 4, 2026 |
| California | Separate boards license registered nurses and vocational nurses; neither board publishes any statement about compact participation in the sources reviewed | Aug 29, 2026 |
| Colorado | One board under DORA's Division of Professions and Occupations publishes the route as "Initial License by Endorsement or Telehealth Method"; the board states "The compact license is the default license in Colorado.", publishes no fee amount outside its portal, and answers that a nurse "may not practice until your license has been issued" | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Connecticut | No board of nursing in the licensing role — the Department of Public Health licenses both levels and names the same act twice, "License by Endorsement of Out-of-State License" for RNs and "Licensure Based on an Out-of-State License" for LPNs; a "120-day, non-renewable temporary permit" is published at both levels on different triggers, and the department states "Effective Oct. 1, 2025, the State of Connecticut implemented its participation in the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)." | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Delaware | The Board of Nursing inside the Division of Professional Regulation sends a lapsed nurse to reinstate elsewhere before applying here, writes its residence test as four permitted cases, requires continuing education at application rather than renewal, asks for verification from the state that made the applicant eligible to sit the NCLEX rather than the current one, and issues a 90-day temporary permit only to an applicant who already has a job offer | Aug 30, 2026 |
| District of Columbia | DC Health charges the application and the criminal background check as one non-refundable $280 payable by Visa or MasterCard only; the only temporary certification it publishes covers nurse aides from Maryland and Virginia, leaving a registered or practical nurse no published interim authority; compact status is not stated anywhere in its captured pages; and its endorsement checklist names the states outside the national verification system twice, differently | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Florida | One board; endorsement is published as the MOBILE Endorsement pathway, and the board states "Florida became part of the NLC on January 19, 2018." | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Georgia | The state board licenses RNs and LPNs, its rules naming the route "Licensure by Endorsement (RN)" or "Licensure by Endorsement (LPN)"; the board states that "Under the NLC, nurses can practice in other NLC states/territories, without obtaining additional licenses." | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hawaii | One board within the DCCA licensing division; the temporary permit turns on a condition almost no other state imposes — the nurse must have "been appointed or accepted employment with a single health care entity in the State" and the employer must certify it, with the board refusing certifications handed over by the applicant — and no statement of compact membership appears anywhere in its materials | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Idaho | The Board of Nursing within DOPL publishes no endorsement instructions page and no application on the web, so the route's conditions sit in IDAPA 24.34.01; "A temporary license may be issued to an applicant for interstate endorsement on proof of current licensure in good standing in another nursing jurisdiction" with no duration published, priced at $25, and no statement of compact membership appears in the board's own words | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Illinois | IDFPR licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement and publishes temporary nursing permits; no compact statement appears in the five sources reviewed | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Indiana | The state board licenses RNs and LPNs, its licensing page naming the route "Initial LPN or RN License by Endorsement/Reciprocity"; compact eligibility requires Indiana primary residence and the compact application follows the single-state one | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Iowa | The Iowa Board of Nursing, now within the Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing, licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement and states "Iowa is a member of the Nurse Licensure Compact."; the words temporary and provisional appear nowhere in the seven sources reviewed, and the only pending-practice statement is that "Nurses may work on their active multistate license while waiting for their Iowa multistate license." | Sep 4, 2026 |
| Kansas | KSBN licenses RNs, LPNs and mental health technicians and states "Kansas is a Compact State!"; no temporary permit reaches endorsement applicants, the single-state and multistate choices are priced differently on the same application, and an application is "active for" "6 months" by regulation | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Kentucky | One board licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement and requires a jurisprudence exam passed at 80%; it states "There is no additional fee or application for a compact license in Kentucky." and publishes two six-month pending-practice instruments, a temporary permit where "Practicing on a temporary permit does not require supervision." and a provisional license that requires direct supervision | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Louisiana | Two separate boards license RNs and practical nurses, with different addresses, fees and conditions; the RN board states "Louisiana implemented the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) July 1, 2019." and publishes a 90-day temporary endorsement permit, while the practical-nurse board states membership without a date and publishes no permit for endorsement applicants | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Maine | The board licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement/reciprocity, and its own site is the first hazard: the link labelled as the RN requirements sheet serves the practical-nurse document instead. A compact rule turns some applicants away outright, background-check results expire after ninety days, fines for unlicensed practice are published as a schedule, and no temporary permit of any kind appears | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Maryland | The Maryland Board of Nursing licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement; it states "Maryland was the first state to join the National Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) in 1999." and publishes separate ordinary and compact-license endorsement processes | Aug 31, 2026 |
| Massachusetts | The Board of Registration in Nursing calls the route "nursing license by reciprocity"; two current board pages differ on the compact, one saying the state "does not take part in the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)." and the other that implementation "is underway", and both are quoted unreconciled | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Michigan | Licensing runs through LARA's Bureau of Professional Licensing, with separate RN and LPN endorsement routes; no current compact statement appears in the sources reviewed, only a January 7, 2021 board statement recorded as historical | Aug 31, 2026 |
| Minnesota | The Minnesota Board of Nursing licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement and publishes a temporary permit "valid until the Board grants you a license or for 60 days, whichever comes first", requested on the application itself; the words compact, multistate and NLC appear nowhere in the six sources reviewed | Aug 31, 2026 |
| Mississippi | The Mississippi Board of Nursing licenses RNs and LPNs on one endorsement application; two temporary permits are published and neither reaches endorsement applicants, the only stated bridge is that a nurse "may continue to practice on your compact license while your endorsement process is under review", and the board answers the processing question with "There is no timetable for issuing licenses." | Aug 31, 2026 |
| Missouri | The Missouri State Board of Nursing licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement; the board states "Missouri is a member of the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)" and describes multistate issuance for qualifying Missouri residents | Aug 31, 2026 |
| Montana | The Board of Nursing calls the route license by credentialing rather than endorsement, charges two hundred dollars, requires verification of every professional license ever held in any field, names two states that fall outside the national verification system, and publishes a provisional license only inside advice written for military spouses | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Nebraska | DHHS licenses RNs and LPNs on one endorsement application and states "Nebraska belongs to the Nurse Licensure Compact."; a temporary license issues "prior to completion of all application requirements" and is "valid for 60 days or until the expiration of your other state license, whichever occurs first", three named grounds waive the application fee, and the fee schedule itself lives at the Secretary of State rather than on the department's pages | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Nevada | One board licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement and answers its own question, "No, Nevada is not a member of the Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)."; a one-time temporary license is issued as a courtesy and is "valid for six-months", against a fingerprint wait the board states "may take up to four (4) months" | Sep 1, 2026 |
| New Hampshire | The Board of Nursing within OPLC; the office's reciprocity page is written in the future tense about a bill that "goes into effect on August 27, 2023" and is treated here as historical, two temporary licenses are priced at $20 but described only for the NCLEX, and the board states that a nurse holding a multi-state license in a party state is "NOT required to apply for an RN license." | Sep 1, 2026 |
| New Jersey | The state board licenses registered professional nurses and licensed practical nurses, with examination and endorsement combined into one online Candidate application; the board states "New Jersey is a member of the Nurse Licensure Compact" | Aug 26, 2026 |
| New Mexico | The state board publishes every route for both levels on one page and states "Endorsement means you are moving your license from one state to another."; a temporary license is priced at $60 and lasts "6 months from the date of the application was submitted." but its eligibility is stated nowhere, and no statement of compact membership appears in the board's own words | Sep 2, 2026 |
| New York | Licensed by the State Education Department rather than a board of nursing; the department states "New York State is not a Nursing Licensure Compact State." | Sep 2, 2026 |
| North Carolina | NCBON licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement; it states "The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC) has been implemented as of January 19, 2018" and publishes a once-per-lifetime temporary license | Sep 5, 2026 |
| North Dakota | The board issues a 90-day temporary permit automatically, with no separate application or fee, to cover the background check; no license application fee appears anywhere in its published pages although they refer to one repeatedly; a US Social Security number is a stated statutory requirement; and verification is required from both the original examination license and a current active one | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Ohio | One board licenses RNs and LPNs; its FY2025 report states "The roll-out of the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) was on January 1, 2023," and Ohio law publishes a nonrenewable endorsement temporary permit | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Oklahoma | One board licenses RNs and LPNs, but publishes four separate endorsement applications at three different fees; a ninety-day temporary license is requested on the application itself for ten dollars, the board states its compact implementation date was January 19, 2018, and a license must exist "prior to working in a position requiring a license, including participation in orientation for positions requiring licensure." | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Oregon | One board licenses LPNs and RNs by endorsement; the words compact, multistate and NLC appear nowhere across forty-two board pages and the endorsement directions, and the only pending-practice route is a ninety-day statutory licensure exception under ORS 678.031 that "must be submitted by the entity requesting the exception, not the nurse being hired." | Sep 4, 2026 |
| Pennsylvania | One board licenses RNs and LPNs; Pennsylvania states it "fully implemented the NLC on July 7, 2025" and publishes single-state endorsement, multistate, and temporary-practice-permit routes | Sep 4, 2026 |
| Rhode Island | The Department of Health rejoined the compact on a stated date in 2024 rather than joining it, requires an eligible nurse to apply for the multistate license rather than permitting it, lets the residence test be satisfied sixty days ahead of a move, names Pennsylvania separately for verification, routes the background check to the Attorney General, and publishes no temporary permit | Sep 4, 2026 |
| South Carolina | One board licenses RNs and LPNs, and since the site was rebuilt it publishes the endorsement route once per license type rather than on a page of its own. A nurse relocating from a compact state must apply "within sixty (60) days of declaring South Carolina as your primary state of residence", and applying before residency is established produces a single-state license. The board publishes a fingerprint background check but no temporary license for endorsement applicants, though its fee schedule still prices one. | Sep 5, 2026 |
| South Dakota | One board licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement, and a temporary permit is published for the applicant "awaiting licensure by endorsement from the board"; the board's own licensure pages are closed to automated readers by its robots.txt, so the rules are quoted from the Legislature's administrative-rules database, whose compact chapter is headed "NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT (Repealed, 45 SDR 9, effective July 30, 2018)" | Sep 5, 2026 |
| Tennessee | The state board licenses RNs and LPNs under instructions headed "Instructions for Licensure by Endorsement – RN and LPN", and distinguishes Tennessee or noncompact residence from residence in another compact state with a multistate license | Sep 5, 2026 |
| Texas | One board licenses RNs and LVNs; the board states "The eNLC was implemented in Texas on January 19, 2018." | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Utah | A division rather than a board licenses nurses, and the endorsement standard sits in a general statute covering every profession rather than in nursing law; the pending-practice instrument is a "limited supervised training permit" available only to an applicant who "does not satisfy the requirements of Subsection (2) or (3)", requiring an employment offer and an employer's attestation and expiring "upon the division's grant or denial of the applicant's application for licensure by endorsement."; no fee amount and no contact could be read, the division's own site refusing automated callers | Aug 31, 2026 |
| Vermont | The Office of Professional Regulation publishes a named Fast Track Endorsement route for anyone licensed three years elsewhere, excluding advanced practice nurses but not RNs or LPNs; its 90-day provisional license is single-state, must be requested in the application, and is available only when the background check or the license verification are the sole outstanding items; the same document states that check's turnaround at two different lengths | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Virginia | The state board licenses RNs and LPNs by endorsement and states "Virginia implemented enhancements to the Nurse Licensure Compact on January 19, 2018."; another compact primary state ordinarily controls the application | Aug 27, 2026 |
| Washington | One board, publishing as WABON; single-state and multistate licenses share one application route, and a temporary practice permit bridges the FBI background check | Sep 3, 2026 |
| West Virginia | Two separate boards license RNs and practical nurses and publish nothing alike; the RN board states "West Virginia is an active member of the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)." and bundles a permit into the endorsement fee — "RN & APRN Endorsement (Includes Temporary Permit)" — without describing it anywhere, while the practical-nurse board publishes no endorsement route, no fee schedule and no compact statement | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Wisconsin | The Wisconsin Board of Nursing and DSPS license RNs and LPNs by endorsement; the profession pages state "Effective December 11, 2017 Wisconsin joined the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)." and that statutory references changed to the NLC in 2022 | Aug 27, 2026 |
| Wyoming | The board states twice that nothing automatically disqualifies an applicant with a criminal record while separately barring a temporary permit to anyone with criminal history in the last five years; endorsement fees differ by level at $135 and $120 where the examination route charges both the same; and its fee rule suspends two of its own charges for the last quarter of 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 |