---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional Counseling Compact; create."
description: "Professional Counseling Compact; create."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1056"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1056 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Health and Human Services", "Public Health and Welfare"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Felsher"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-16T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36d8c61e-e3b3-4167-98fc-ca581b4704aa"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/House_authors/Felsher.xml"
source_hash: "8a0d9ea1f2344d665f515d1ff4c5359fd5a57fc913d5f4ca2f7a3067229bb451"
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 1056 (2022) — Professional Counseling Compact; create.

## 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/2022/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1056IN.htm)
2. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1056PS.htm)
3. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1056CS.htm)
4. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2022/html/HB/1000-1099/HB1056SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **52–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **117–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Felsher — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2022-02-03T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-04T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-15T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Public Health and Welfare `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2022-03-08T06:00:00+00:00** Returned For Enrolling
- **2022-03-09T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-10T06:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2022-03-16T05:00:00+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/36d8c61e-e3b3-4167-98fc-ca581b4704aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).