ACA wants to help you and your students stay up to date with professional issues on the national level. The ACA Chief Professional Officer and Director of Public Policy will discuss the status of legal and legislative attempts to allow counselor discrimination against GLBT clients, the DSM-5 changes, licensure portability, the ACA Code of Ethics revision, a key CACREP standard revision proposal, and an alternate counselor education credentialing effort. Comments will be actively solicited.