---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional counselors licensure compact."
description: "Requires the behavioral health and human services licensing board to administer the professional counselors licensure compact (compact). Adopts the compact. Sets forth requirements of a member state. Sets forth the duties and authority of the counseling compact commission (commission). Allows a counselor in a home state to practice via telehealth in a member state. Allows each member state to have one delegate on the commission. Establishes the procedure to withdraw from the compact. Makes conforming changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 160"
citation: "Indiana SB 160 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HUMAN SERVICES", "Regulation and Licensing of Professionals", "UNIFORM STATE LAWS AND COMPACTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ann Vermilion", "Ed Charbonneau", "Kyle Walker", "Michael Crider"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7efa753-4c92-42fe-8992-03e56a1f115e"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/160"
source_hash: "f4daaa6d77e0fbaec9ff4000df74ed15253f0a7c18ef0cba9af6a9987edb3a06"
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-in"]
---

# Indiana SB 160 (2023) — Professional counselors licensure compact.

Requires the behavioral health and human services licensing board to administer the professional counselors licensure compact (compact). Adopts the compact. Sets forth requirements of a member state. Sets forth the duties and authority of the counseling compact commission (commission). Allows a counselor in a home state to practice via telehealth in a member state. Allows each member state to have one delegate on the commission. Establishes the procedure to withdraw from the compact. Makes conforming changes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0160/versions/SB0160.04.ENRH)
2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0160/versions/SB0160.01.INTR)
3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0160/versions/SB0160.03.COMH)
4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0160/versions/SB0160.02.COMS)

## Votes

- SB 160 - Vermilion A - 3rd Reading — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ann Vermilion — primary (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — primary (person)
- Kyle Walker — primary (person)
- Michael Crider — primary (person)
- Brad Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- David Niezgodski — coauthor (person)
- J.D. Ford — coauthor (person)
- John Crane — coauthor (person)
- Mike Andrade — cosponsor (person)
- Shelli Yoder — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senator Crider
- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10** Senator Walker K added as second author
- **2023-01-12** Senator Ford J.D. added as coauthor
- **2023-01-17** Senator Charbonneau added as third author
- **2023-01-23** Senator Niezgodski added as coauthor
- **2023-01-26** Committee report: do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-30** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 46: yeas 48, nays 1 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** House sponsor: Representative Vermilion
- **2023-01-31** Cosponsor: Representative Andrade M
- **2023-01-31** Senator Crane added as coauthor
- **2023-01-31** Senator Yoder added as coauthor
- **2023-02-02** Referred to the House `referral`
- **2023-02-28** First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-20** Representative Barrett added as cosponsor
- **2023-04-04** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-06** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-04-10** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 376: yeas 97, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-11** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
- **2023-04-12** Motion to concur filed `filing`
- **2023-04-13** Senate concurred in House amendments; Roll Call 388: yeas 46, nays 1
- **2023-04-17** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
- **2023-04-21** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-05-01** Public Law 98 `became-law`
- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7efa753-4c92-42fe-8992-03e56a1f115e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).