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Kansas counselors must clear background-check and degree requirements before joining interstate compact, staff says
Summary
The professional counseling interstate compact has launched in at least two states, but Kansas practitioners cannot use it until the state adds an FBI background check requirement and a process to verify 60-hour degrees, the BSRB executive director told the advisory committee.
Kansas licensees hoping to use the new professional counseling interstate compact will have to wait until the state resolves two requirements, Executive Director David Fye told the Professional Counselor Advisory Committee on Oct. 2.
Fye said the compact began rolling out in at least Arizona and Minnesota and that Kansas is preparing to join but faces a primary obstacle: the compact requires a fingerprint-based federal background check for members, and Kansas historically has not required an FBI background…
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