S.Amdt. 591

SA 591. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Ms. Duckworth) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1790, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of part II of subtitle F of title V, add the
following:

SEC. 582. MILITARY SPOUSE PROFESSIONAL LICENSE RECIPROCITY.

(a) Finding.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Military spouses continue to experience difficulties in
transferring their professional licenses from State to State.
(2) Professional license reciprocity exists sporadically
across various States.
(b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that
the States should take appropriate actions to ensure that a
military spouse may engage in a business or occupation for
which a professional license is required without obtaining
the applicable professional license in the gaining State if
the spouse is currently licensed in good standing by another
State that has professional licensing requirements that are
substantially equivalent to the requirements for the license
in such gaining State.
(c) Report.--Not later than 120 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit
to Congress a report setting forth the results of a study,
undertaken for purposes of the report, on the feasibility and
advisability of the transference by military spouses of
professional licenses for various professions from State to
State. The report shall set forth the following:
(1) A list of the States that currently permit military
spouses to transfer such licenses, and shall specify for each
such State each profession for which such a license is so
transferrable.
(2) A ranking of the States by transferability of licenses
by military spouses, with appropriate weight being afforded
to various mechanisms for transfer, including licensure by
endorsement, temporary or provisional licensing, and
expedited application for licenses.
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