Military Spouse Licensing Relief Act of 2020

Military Spouse Licensing Relief Act of 2020

This bill provides for the portability of professional licenses of service members and their spouses who are relocated under military orders to a location that is not within the jurisdiction of the license.

Specifically, a professional license in good standing of a service member or spouse shall be considered valid and in good standing in the new jurisdiction for the duration of such military orders.

To establish and maintain eligibility, a service member or spouse must (1) provide a copy of the military orders to the licensing authority in the jurisdiction in which the new residency is located; (2) remain in good standing with the licensing authority that issued the license; and (3) submit to the authority of the licensing authority in the new jurisdiction for the purposes of standards of practice, discipline, and fulfillment of any continuing education requirements.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4608 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4608

    To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the 
   portability of professional licenses of members of the uniformed 
          services and their spouses, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 17, 2020

 Mr. Lee (for himself, Mr. Cotton, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms. 
McSally, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Rubio, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Daines, Mr. 
   Blunt, Mrs. Loeffler, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Risch, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. 
Barrasso, Mr. Braun, Mr. Romney, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Thune, Ms. Murkowski, 
 Mr. Hoeven, and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; which was 
       read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide for the 
   portability of professional licenses of members of the uniformed 
          services and their spouses, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Military Spouse Licensing Relief Act 
of 2020''.

SEC. 2. PORTABILITY OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSES OF MEMBERS OF THE 
              UNIFORMED SERVICES AND THEIR SPOUSES.

    (a) In General.--Title VII of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act 
(50 U.S.C. 4021 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 705 (50 
U.S.C. 4025) the following new section:

``SEC. 705A. PORTABILITY OF PROFESSIONAL LICENSES OF SERVICEMEMBERS AND 
              THEIR SPOUSES.

    ``In any case in which a servicemember has a professional license 
in good standing in a jurisdiction or the spouse of a servicemember has 
a professional license in good standing in a jurisdiction and such 
servicemember or spouse relocates his or her residency because of 
military orders to a location that is not in such jurisdiction, the 
professional license or certification of such servicemember or spouse 
shall be considered valid and in good standing in the jurisdiction of 
such new residency for the duration of such military orders if such 
servicemember or spouse--
            ``(1) provides a copy of such military orders to the 
        licensing authority in the jurisdiction in which the new 
        residency is located;
            ``(2) remains in good standing with the licensing authority 
        that issued the license; and
            ``(3) submits to the authority of the licensing authority 
        in the new jurisdiction for the purposes of standards of 
        practice, discipline, and fulfillment of any continuing 
        education requirements.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
such Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 705 
the following new item:

``Sec. 705A. Portability of professional licenses of servicemembers and 
                            their spouses.''.
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