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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- COUNSELING COMPACT"
+description: "Adopts a counseling compact for the interstate practice of licensed professional counselors by providing for the mutual recognition of other member state licenses governed and administrated by commission."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 7141"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7141 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ajello", "Boylan", "Caldwell", "Fogarty", "Handy", "Hull", "Kazarian", "Messier", "Morales", "Spears"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-01-11"
+last_action: "2024-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7af448c-4708-47c1-ada6-c52102e20fd2"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "51e60c1d54f36a7a7e1ca5f055c20bdf1f0143ca36cd42437f691c86880570fc"
+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-ri"]
+---
+
+# Rhode Island HB 7141 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- COUNSELING COMPACT
+
+Adopts a counseling compact for the interstate practice of licensed professional counselors by providing for the mutual recognition of other member state licenses governed and administrated by commission.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7141** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7141.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **70–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ajello — primary (person)
+- Boylan — primary (person)
+- Caldwell — primary (person)
+- Fogarty — primary (person)
+- Handy — primary (person)
+- Hull — primary (person)
+- Kazarian — primary (person)
+- Messier — primary (person)
+- Morales — primary (person)
+- Spears — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-11** 01/11/2024 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-26** 01/26/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (01/30/2024)
+- **2024-01-30** 01/30/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Scheduled for consideration (06/10/2024)
+- **2024-06-10** 06/10/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/12/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/13/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-13** 06/13/2024 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-21** 06/21/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-25** 06/25/2024 Signed 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/d7af448c-4708-47c1-ada6-c52102e20fd2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+