---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adding related educational degrees to professional counselor licensure criteria."
description: "Adding related educational degrees to professional counselor licensure criteria."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "SB 386"
citation: "Kansas SB 386 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-06"
last_action: "2018-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c887ba6b-01e8-4283-9cca-fda7953bacb2"
source_url: "http://www.kslegislature.org/li/api/v11/rev-1/bill_status/sb386"
source_hash: "fd38468c229872d77c7a19bcbbf8c47a632da95efa00e9b7c1c66776d80da471"
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-ks"]
---

# Kansas SB 386 (2017-2018) — Adding related educational degrees to professional counselor licensure criteria.

## Version chain

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

1. **As introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/sb386_00_0000.pdf)
2. **Enrolled - Law effective July 01, 2018** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/documents/sb386_enrolled.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Action - Passed; — **124–0** (pass) · legislature
- Final Action - Passed; — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Committee on Public Health and Welfare — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-06** Introduced `introduction`
- **2018-02-07** Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Hearing: Thursday, February 15, 2018, 09:30 AM Room 118-N
- **2018-02-15** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Public Health and Welfare `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2018-02-21** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 39 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2018-02-28** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Hearing: Wednesday, March 07, 2018, 01:30 PM Room 546-S
- **2018-03-08** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Health and Human Services `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2018-03-26** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2018-03-27** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 124 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2018-04-02** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Friday, March 30, 2018 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-04-03** Approved by Governor on Monday, April 2, 2018 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c887ba6b-01e8-4283-9cca-fda7953bacb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).