MN HF728

Establishes the Licensed Professional Counselor Interstate Compact, enabling licensed counselors from member states to practice in other member states under a "privilege to practice" without obtaining separate licenses in each state.

Member states must require licensees to pass a nationally recognized exam, hold a 60 semester-hour or 90 quarter-hour master's degree in counseling with specified topic areas, complete supervised postgraduate experience, and undergo criminal background checks.

Creates the Counseling Compact Commission as a joint agency with representatives from each member state to develop rules, maintain a data system for licensure and adverse action information, and oversee compact administration.

Grants remote states authority to take adverse actions against a counselor's privilege to practice, while only the home state can take adverse action against the primary license; allows home state to complete pending investigations when a licensor changes residence.

Compact becomes effective when enacted by the tenth member state; allows states to withdraw with six months' notice and permits amendments only if enacted by all member states.