---
type: "Bill"
title: "Counseling Compact; licensure of professional counselors."
description: "Counseling Compact; licensure of professional counselors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 1433"
citation: "Virginia HB 1433 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott, P.A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-12-16"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70495217-5ba3-4475-a422-78d49b87f39b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1433"
source_hash: "812b73c5519386fc2c1672061bcf66c429d6fe2b000055325e68a64ba1835faf"
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-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 1433 (2023) — Counseling Compact; licensure of professional counselors.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0684** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0684)
2. **HB1433ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1433ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100783D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1433)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 2-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Scott, P.A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-16** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100783D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-12-16** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10** Impact statement from DPB (HB1433)
- **2023-01-13** Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 1-N)
- **2023-01-24** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-30** VOTE: (100-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-31** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-10** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed by temporarily
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (34-Y 6-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-15** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1433ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB1433ER)
- **2023-02-15** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 684 (effective 1/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-27** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0684)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70495217-5ba3-4475-a422-78d49b87f39b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).