Independent tracker · updated 2026-10-26
One license.
Nineteen states.
Thirty-three to go.
The Dietitian Licensure Compact lets an RD hold a license in one state and practice in every other member state without a second application, fee, or renewal. It is already law in 19 states and legally active. No privileges have been issued yet, and whether your state is in or out is still being decided by legislators who have not heard from an RD.
This site tracks where each state stands and why, and it finds the two state legislators who vote on it for you.
- 19 states have enacted the compact of 52 jurisdictions
- 7 states were needed to activate it met in March 2025
- 2027 first compact privileges expected no month announced
- 33 jurisdictions still outside the part you can change
The short version
What the compact does and doesn't do
It does
- Let a dietitian licensed in their home state obtain a privilege to practice in every other member state.
- Replace a stack of separate state licenses, each with its own application, fee, and renewal cycle, with one license plus privileges.
- Make telehealth across state lines legally straightforward instead of a compliance maze.
- Follow military spouses when they are restationed, instead of ending their practice at the state line.
- Share disciplinary information between member states, so a practitioner cannot outrun a sanction.
It does not
- Lower any standard. Every dietitian still holds the national RD credential and an unencumbered home-state license.
- Create a national license, or move licensing authority to the federal government.
- Take away a state's power to set scope of practice or to discipline a practitioner.
- Change which law applies to a patient. You practice under the rules of the state the patient is in.
- Help you if you live in a non-member state. Eligibility follows your residence, not your employer.
The eligibility rule that catches people out. To use the compact you must hold the RD credential, hold an active unencumbered license in your home state, and live in a member state. If you live in a state that has not joined, or one that does not license dietitians at all, the compact does nothing for you, however many other states join.
Every state, every status
The map
Select a state for its bill number, enactment date, and Academy affiliate, and for the specific reason if it has not joined. Filter by status with the legend.
Select any state for its bill, its status, its Academy affiliate, and the reason it is where it is.
View this map as a list
- Alabama: Member state
- Alaska: Stalled
- Arizona: No bill yet
- Arkansas: Member state
- California: Cannot join yet
- Colorado: Cannot join yet
- Connecticut: No bill yet
- Delaware: No bill yet
- District of Columbia: No bill yet
- Florida: No bill yet
- Georgia: Member state
- Hawaii: No bill yet
- Idaho: Stalled
- Illinois: No bill yet
- Indiana: Stalled
- Iowa: Member state
- Kansas: Member state
- Kentucky: Member state
- Louisiana: Vetoed
- Maine: Stalled
- Maryland: No bill yet
- Massachusetts: No bill yet
- Michigan: No bill yet
- Minnesota: No bill yet
- Mississippi: Member state
- Missouri: Member state
- Montana: Member state
- Nebraska: Member state
- Nevada: No bill yet
- New Hampshire: Stalled
- New Jersey: No bill yet
- New Mexico: No bill yet
- New York: No bill yet
- North Carolina: No bill yet
- North Dakota: Member state
- Ohio: Member state
- Oklahoma: Member state
- Oregon: No bill yet
- Pennsylvania: No bill yet
- Puerto Rico: No bill yet
- Rhode Island: Member state
- South Carolina: In process
- South Dakota: Member state
- Tennessee: Member state
- Texas: Stalled
- Utah: Member state
- Vermont: Stalled
- Virginia: Cannot join yet
- Washington: Member state
- West Virginia: Stalled
- Wisconsin: Member state
- Wyoming: No bill yet
In order of enactment
The nineteen
Nebraska went first, when there was nothing yet to join. Mississippi was the seventh, the number written into the compact itself, and its enactment turned seven separate state laws into one governing body. Washington is the most recent.
- 1 Nebraska April 2, 2024
- 2 Alabama May 2024
- 3 Tennessee May 2024
- 4 Ohio January 8, 2025
- 5 South Dakota March 6, 2025
- 6 North Dakota March 24, 2025
- 7 Mississippi March 21, 2025 activation
- 8 Utah March 27, 2025
- 9 Kansas April 10, 2025
- 10 Montana April 17, 2025
- 11 Arkansas April 17, 2025
- 12 Iowa May 6, 2025
- 13 Oklahoma May 28, 2025
- 14 Rhode Island June 26, 2025
- 15 Wisconsin August 8, 2025
- 16 Georgia May 11, 2026
- 17 Kentucky April 6, 2026
- 18 Missouri 2026
- 19 Washington March 11, 2026
It's possible your state legislator has never heard of this.
20 jurisdictions have never had a compact bill filed, so legislators there haven't voted it down. Most likely, no one has asked them to file one.
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