Advocacy
Current NCAA Legislative and Policy Issues
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Thus far, your NCAA has had a very successful legislative session! Below is our agenda for 2025 along with the results:
- Ending the dual licensure requirement for audiologists with a master’s degree and for audiology technicians and assistants. Enacted
- Requiring the sellers of prescription hearing aids that are “locked” by the manufacturer to inform the purchasers of these devices that they are “locked” and can only be serviced by “authorized” technicians. Enacted
- Increase salary for school-based audiologists. Included in the proposed 2025-2026 budget.
The language ending dual licensure and requiring the sellers of locked hearing aids to inform their purchasers of this fact appeared in House Bill 926 “The Regulatory Reform Act of 2025. You can find the bill here.
The salary increase for school-based audiologists is included in current drafts of the state budget. We will have to wait for the General Assembly to pass a state budget for school-based audiologists to see that increase.
Our 2026 agenda as suggested by members and approved by NCAA leadership includes a minor tweak to the language rewriting the statutes governing the profession passed during the 2023-2024 session.
Exciting updates are available for NCAA members only both on this website and via your lobbyist’s periodic legislative/policy updates.
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Interstate Compact
Passage of the Interstate Compact was an early legislative achievement of the NCAA. As one of the first 5 states to enact the legislation, North Carolina is a “founding” member.
Under the ASLP-IC, audiologists and speech-language pathologists who are licensed in good standing in a compact member state will be eligible to practice in other compact member states via a “compact privilege,” which is equivalent to a license.
Once the Compact is fully operational, licensed audiologists and speech-language pathologists will be able to apply for a privilege to practice in-person and through telehealth in ASLP-IC states.
You can get the latest update on the status of the compact and North Carolina’s ability to issue compact privileges here.
