---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacting the counseling compact to provide for interstate practice privileges for professional counselors."
description: "Enacting the counseling compact to provide for interstate practice privileges for professional counselors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ks"
legislature: "Kansas Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "HB 2288"
citation: "Kansas HB 2288 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-02-03"
last_action: "2023-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46ac7ce8-913d-4ffa-9679-7f9958ab25d1"
source_url: "http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/hb2288/"
source_hash: "ab27975259e5a66963cb1e0d0fb08c80ba79ac90153f0f6c81a7507aa9edda56"
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 HB 2288 (2023-2024) — Enacting the counseling compact to provide for interstate practice privileges for professional counselors.

## Version chain

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

1. **As introduced** (filed) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2288_00_0000.pdf)
2. **As Amended by House Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/hb2288_01_0000.pdf)

## Votes

- Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; — **121–0** (pass) · lower
- Final Action - Passed; — **36–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Health and Human Services — primary (organization)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-03** Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-02-06** Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Hearing: Tuesday, February 14, 2023, 1:30 PM Room 112-N
- **2023-02-16** Committee Report recommending bill be passed as amended by Committee on Health and Human Services `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Committee Report be adopted
- **2023-02-23** Committee of the Whole - Be passed as amended `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Emergency Final Action - Passed as amended; Yea: 121 Nay: 0 `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Engrossed on Friday, February 24, 2023
- **2023-03-01** Received and Introduced `introduction`
- **2023-03-02** Referred to Committee on Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22** Committee Report recommending bill be passed by Committee on Public Health and Welfare `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-27** Committee of the Whole - Now working on
- **2023-03-27** Committee of the Whole - Be passed `passage`
- **2023-03-28** Final Action - Passed; Yea: 36 Nay: 4 `passage`
- **2023-04-03** Enrolled and presented to Governor on Monday, April 3, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-24** Approved by Governor on Monday, April 10, 2023 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/46ac7ce8-913d-4ffa-9679-7f9958ab25d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kansas legislature records).