{"data":{"id":"us-nh/rsa-330-d-4","jurisdiction":"us-nh","citation":"RSA 330-D:4","heading":"Obtaining a New Home State License Based On a Privilege to Practice.","body":"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.\nII. If a licensed professional counselor changes their primary state of residence by moving between 2 member states:\n(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;\n(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:\n(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;\n(2) Other criminal background check(s) as required by the new home state; and\n(3) Completion of any requisite jurisprudence requirements of the new home state;\n(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;\n(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\n(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.\nIII. 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.\nIV. 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.\nV. Nothing in this compact shall affect the requirements established by a member state for the issuance of a single state license.","path":["Title XXX: OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS","Chapter 330-D: MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING COMPACT"],"source_url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/XXX/330-D/330-D-4.htm","current_through":"2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T15:10:59Z","sha256":"ff78ee33812dddf03f75e2315fbf2838f1c583552634112a5de548a57abf305d","source_id":"us-nh","stale":false,"prev":"us-nh/rsa-330-d-3","next":"us-nh/rsa-330-d-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}