RSA 330-D:4 · Obtaining a New Home State License Based On a Privilege to Practice

330-D:4 Obtaining a New Home State License Based On a Privilege to Practice. –
I. A licensed professional counselor may hold a home state license, which allows for a privilege to practice in other member states, in only one member state at a time.
II. If a licensed professional counselor changes their primary state of residence by moving between 2 member states:
(a) The licensed professional counselor shall file an application for obtaining a new home state license based on a privilege to practice, pay all applicable fees, and notify the current and new home state in accordance with applicable rules adopted by the commission;
(b) Upon receipt of an application for obtaining a new home state license by virtue of a privilege to practice, the new home state shall verify that the licensed professional counselor meets the pertinent criteria outlined in RSA 330-D:3 via the data system, without need for primary source verification except:
(1) A Federal Bureau of Investigation fingerprint-based criminal background check if not previously performed or updated pursuant to applicable rules adopted by the commission in accordance with Federal Public Law 92-544;
(2) Other criminal background check(s) as required by the new home state; and
(3) Completion of any requisite jurisprudence requirements of the new home state;
(c) The former home state shall convert the former home state license into a privilege to practice once the new home state has activated the new home state license in accordance with applicable rules adopted by the commission;
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this compact, if the licensed professional counselor cannot meet the criteria of RSA 330-D:3, the new home state may apply its requirements for issuing a new single state license; and
(e) The licensed professional counselor shall pay all applicable fees to the new home state in order to be issued a new home state license.
III. If a licensed professional counselor changes primary state of residence by moving from a member state to a non-member state, or from a non-member state to a member state, the state criteria shall apply for issuance of a single state license in the new state.
IV. Nothing in this compact shall interfere with a licensee's ability to hold a single state license in multiple states, however for the purposes of this compact, a licensee shall have only one home state license.
V. Nothing in this compact shall affect the requirements established by a member state for the issuance of a single state license.
Source. 2022, 277:2, eff. June 24, 2022.