For 35 minutes, backers of a bill to make Minnesota part of a 39-state nursing licensure compact talked around the reasons why it hasn't passed, and why it likely won't pass this year either.
Republican lawmakers, nursing officials from the Mayo Clinic and the dean of the University of Minnesota presented the bill as an obvious step to addressing a nursing shortage. It would allow state-licensed nurses to practice in all of the other member states of the Nurse Licensure Compact. Conversely, nurses licensed from other states in the compact can work in Minnesota.
