SF3355 Summary: Licensed Professional Counselor Interstate Compact

• Establishes an interstate compact allowing licensed professional counselors to practice across member states under a "privilege to practice" without obtaining separate licenses in each state.

• Requires participating states to license and regulate professional counselors, mandate nationally recognized exams, and ensure licensees complete a 60 semester-hour or equivalent master's degree in counseling with specific topic areas.

• Creates the Counseling Compact Commission as a joint public agency with one delegate per member state to develop rules, maintain a shared data system for licensure and adverse action information, and oversee compact implementation.

• Permits active duty military personnel and their spouses to designate a home state license and retain that designation during active service, and allows telehealth practice across member states.

• Compact becomes effective when enacted by the tenth member state; member states may withdraw with six months' notice, and adverse action reporting requirements continue through the withdrawal effective date.