---
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).