All Roll Calls
Yes: 63 • No: 0
NevadaAB16383rd Regular Session (2025)House
AN ACT relating to mental health; ratifying and entering into the Counseling Compact; authorizing the sharing of certain information with the coordinated database and reporting system created by the Compact; providing licensed professional counselors practicing in this State under the Compact with the same legal status as clinical professional counselors who are licensed in this State; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Sponsored By: Gregory T. Hafen II (Republican)
Signed by Governor
BDR 54-129
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
7 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 6 mixed.
Stronger cross-state discipline for counselors
If your Home State disciplines your license, your multistate privilege turns off everywhere until cleared. Remote states can limit your privilege there, issue subpoenas, and courts in other states enforce them; issuers pay witness and travel costs. States may rely on another state’s factual findings and run joint investigations. Only your Home State can discipline the license it issued, and it must finish any pending probe if you move. Some states may bill you for investigation costs, but they may also use alternative programs instead of formal discipline.
Shared counselor database and privacy rules
The Compact runs a shared database of licenses, investigations, and adverse actions. Nevada must send standard data and promptly report adverse actions so other states are notified. Investigative records are shared only with member states, not the public; states can mark some records confidential, and expunged entries must be removed. In Nevada, complaints and documents used to decide discipline are public, but most investigative materials stay confidential. These data‑sharing and confidentiality rules, and the Act, take effect January 1, 2026.
Counselors can work across state lines
Licensed counselors can practice in other member states under a Compact privilege. You may also provide telehealth to clients in other member states. You must follow the client’s state laws and scope of practice. States may charge a fee for this privilege. Beginning January 1, 2026, Nevada treats the Compact privilege like a Nevada clinical professional counselor license.
New interstate commission for counselors
Nevada joins the Counseling Compact and a new interstate Commission runs it. The Commission makes binding rules, keeps the data system, holds public meetings, and members have legal protections. It can assess member states to fund operations and enforce compliance, including lawsuits or ending a state’s membership; states can withdraw after six months. Each state gets one voting delegate and an executive committee helps manage work; rulemaking must include public notice and comment. Nevada must follow Commission rules, join the data system, grant privileges to qualified out‑of‑state counselors, and send a commissioner.
Stronger action on counselor complaints across states
Beginning January 1, 2026, Nevada treats counselor complaints from other Compact states the same as in‑state complaints. Nevada applies its own laws to decide any action. This speeds and strengthens cross‑state enforcement to protect clients.
Standard training and background checks for counselors
To qualify under the Compact, you need a counseling master’s with 60 semester hours (or 90 quarter hours) or equivalent coursework. You must pass a national exam and complete supervised post‑graduate experience. For an initial Compact privilege, you must submit fingerprints or biometrics for FBI and state criminal checks.
Public records updated for Compact data
Beginning January 1, 2026, Nevada’s public‑records law covers Counseling Compact data. When state records rules conflict with Compact confidentiality, the Compact rules apply. Some licensing and investigative data stay confidential, while other records remain public.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Gregory T. Hafen II
Republican • House
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/2/2025
Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)
Yes: 21 • No: 0
House vote • 5/28/2025
Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)
Yes: 42 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chapter 461.
6/11/2025legislatureApproved by the Governor.
6/10/2025legislatureEnrolled and delivered to Governor.
6/6/2025legislatureIn Assembly. To enrollment.
6/4/2025HouseTo Assembly.
6/2/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.)
6/2/2025SenateTaken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
6/1/2025SenateRead second time.
5/31/2025SenatePlaced on Second Reading File.
5/31/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass.
5/31/2025SenateRead first time. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To committee.
5/29/2025SenateIn Senate.
5/29/2025SenateRead third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
5/28/2025HouseFrom printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.
5/28/2025HouseRead third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 826.) To printer.
5/27/2025HousePlaced on General File.
5/27/2025HouseFrom committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
5/27/2025HouseRereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To committee.
3/19/2025HouseTaken from General File.
3/19/2025HouseRead second time.
3/19/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass.
3/18/2025HouseNotice of eligibility for exemption.
3/2/2025HouseRead first time. To committee.
2/4/2025HouseFrom printer.
2/2/2025HousePrefiled. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor. To printer.
1/31/2025House
Bill Text
As Enrolled
As Introduced
Reprint 1
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