---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional Counselors Licensure Compact"
description: "Professional Counselors Licensure Compact; Creates Professional Counselors Licensure Compact; provides for recognition to practice licensed professional counseling in member states; provides for recognition of practice of professional counseling through telehealth in member states; provides for development of data system, reporting procedures, & exchange of specified information between member states; specifies licensees practicing in remote state under compact must adhere to laws & rules of remote state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1521"
citation: "Florida HB 1521 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["regulation of professions and occupations", "torts"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2022-63"
primary_sponsors: ["Koster"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 47
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0b7d90f-252b-4373-b1b1-e180bcdc77e0"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1521/ByCategory"
source_hash: "320ae41306c699e982ef3f90a8d658053cf66f15c6be6695b4581004b27cc1ae"
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-fl"]
---

# Florida HB 1521 (2022) — Professional Counselors Licensure Compact

Professional Counselors Licensure Compact; Creates Professional Counselors Licensure Compact; provides for recognition to practice licensed professional counseling in member states; provides for recognition of practice of professional counseling through telehealth in member states; provides for development of data system, reporting procedures, & exchange of specified information between member states; specifies licensees practicing in remote state under compact must adhere to laws & rules of remote state.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2022-63.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 1521 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1521/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 1521 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1521/BillText/c1/PDF)
3. **H 1521 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1521/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Favorable (Government Operations Subcommittee) — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Health & Human Services Committee) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable With Committee Substitute (Professions & Public Health Subcommittee) — **18–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Koster — primary (person)
- Professions and Public Health Subcommittee — primary (organization)
- Hunschofsky — cosponsor (person)
- Mooney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-10** Filed `filing`
- **2022-01-11** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2022-01-16** Referred to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-16** Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-16** Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-16** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-16** Now in Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
- **2022-01-31** Added to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-02-02** Favorable with CS by Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
- **2022-02-03** Reported out of Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
- **2022-02-03** Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
- **2022-02-03** CS Filed
- **2022-02-04** Original reference removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2022-02-04** Referred to Government Operations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-04** Referred to Health & Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-04** Now in Government Operations Subcommittee
- **2022-02-04** Added to Government Operations Subcommittee agenda
- **2022-02-04** 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
- **2022-02-08** Favorable by Government Operations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-08** Reported out of Government Operations Subcommittee
- **2022-02-08** Now in Health & Human Services Committee
- **2022-02-15** Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
- **2022-02-17** Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-17** Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
- **2022-02-17** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (2/22/2022)
- **2022-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2022-02-22** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** CS passed; YEAS 115, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Immediately certified
- **2022-02-24** In Messages
- **2022-02-24** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Received
- **2022-03-09** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2022-03-09** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2022-03-09** Substituted for CS/CS/SB 358
- **2022-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2022-03-09** In Messages
- **2022-03-09** Ordered enrolled
- **2022-04-05** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-08** Chapter No. 2022-63; companion bill(s) passed, see HB 1523 (Ch. 2022-64)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0b7d90f-252b-4373-b1b1-e180bcdc77e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).