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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: "SB 802"
citation: "Virginia SB 802 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hashmi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-12-05"
last_action: "2023-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc9f317d-7e8d-4083-8bdc-f9bcd898cec4"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB802"
source_hash: "f9f973d3bfec536dd7e947ad5d1765addb99e5a1ee38877cd981702f6c26921d"
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 SB 802 (2023) — Counseling Compact; licensure of professional counselors.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0685** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0685)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100851D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB802)
3. **SB802ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB802ER)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 5-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) — **00** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Hashmi — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-12-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100851D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-12-05** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-10** Impact statement from DPB (SB802)
- **2023-01-17** Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-17** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-27** Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 5-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-09** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-17** Passed by for the day
- **2023-02-20** Passed by for the day
- **2023-02-21** Passed by for the day
- **2023-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** Passed House (97-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB802ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB802ER)
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 685 (effective 1/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-27** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0685)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc9f317d-7e8d-4083-8bdc-f9bcd898cec4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).