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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Licensed professional counselors; revise titles, qualifications and fees of."
+description: "Licensed professional counselors; revise titles, qualifications and fees of."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
+legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 708"
+citation: "Mississippi HB 708 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Touchstone"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-09T06:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2018-03-19T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/996ad929-8424-4351-ba07-d43827abbf8f"
+source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2018/pdf//history/HB/HB0708.xml"
+source_hash: "7bb483a2a80452728661fc509e12f7f127af07d9126a4570092168762b6b98bc"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ms"]
+---
+
+# Mississippi HB 708 (2018) — Licensed professional counselors; revise titles, qualifications and fees of.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0708IN.htm)
+2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0708PS.htm)
+3. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2018/html/HB/0700-0799/HB0708SG.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **105–7** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **48–3** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Touchstone — primary (person)
+- Sykes — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-09T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-23T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-02-01T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2018-02-02T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-02-12T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
+- **2018-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
+- **2018-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2018-03-12T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
+- **2018-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/996ad929-8424-4351-ba07-d43827abbf8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).
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