1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Temporary Reciprocity to Ensure Access to Treatment Act or the TREAT Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) It is necessary to regulate, on a temporary and emergency basis, the provision of interstate commerce as it pertains to treatment by medical professionals licensed in one State to patients in other States. (2) COVID–19, the disease caused by SARS–CoV–2, has created a national public health emergency, as declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247d ) on January 31, 2020, and by the President under the National Emergencies Act on March 13, 2020. (3) The COVID–19 pandemic has resulted in closing many businesses and nonprofit organizations, including colleges and universities, and large areas of the country remain under full or partial stay-at-home orders, precluding the ability to seek routine or elective medical treatment and consultation. The closing of campus-based in-person learning at institutions of higher education has also meant that up to 1,000,000 students have returned to live with their families across State lines from where they may have been receiving medical care in the university setting. Furthermore, in many rural areas, in-person medical treatment is inaccessible. Even in urban areas, the pandemic has severely disrupted access to medical care, requiring medical professionals licensed in one State to provide treatment to patients residing nearby but across a State line and unable to visit the medical professional’s office in the State of licensure. (4) It is vital that hospitals, temporary surge or field facilities, skilled nursing facilities, and nursing homes in areas with high caseloads of COVID–19 patients be able to have access to qualified medical professionals, including such professionals licensed in other States, without the delays that would be required for individualized licensing during a time when State agencies’ capacity to review and process