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    {
      "id": "F01",
      "claim": "The Interstate Massage Compact's own website attributes Ohio's withdrawal to Ohio SB 279.",
      "url": "https://www.massagecompact.org/",
      "quote": "SB 279 Removes Ohio from IMpact",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F02",
      "claim": "Ohio SB 279 of the 136th General Assembly is a law-enforcement firearms bill, not massage legislation. It amends R.C. 2923.121 and 2923.1214 and enacts 2923.1215.",
      "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/sb279",
      "quote": "Ban discouraging, barring law enforcement from carrying off duty",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F03",
      "claim": "Ohio SB 276 of the 136th General Assembly is the bill that actually modified the Interstate Massage Compact.",
      "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/sb276",
      "quote": "to ratify the Interstate Compact for School Psychologists, to modify the Interstate Massage Compact (IMpact)",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F04",
      "claim": "FSMTB, which co-stewards the compact, attributes the same event to SB 276 -- the correct bill.",
      "url": "https://fsmtb.org/impact/",
      "quote": "Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has signed Senate Bill 276",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F05",
      "claim": "The Social Work Licensure Compact Commission homepage, under 'Current Status', states the compact is enacted in at least seven states. Correct figure: 35.",
      "url": "https://swcompact.org/",
      "quote": "The Social Work Licensure Compact has been enacted in at least seven states and has reached activation status, however multistate licenses are not yet being issued.",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F06",
      "claim": "The same Commission's jurisdictions page lists exactly 31 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin. Counted programmatically on the fetched page.",
      "url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
      "quote": "The following jurisdictions have passed the Compact Language.",
      "as_of": "2026-08-30",
      "superseded_on": "2026-10-30",
      "superseded_by": "F06-2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F06-2026-10-30",
      "claim": "On 2026-10-30 the jurisdictions page lists 33 states: the 31 of F06 plus Alaska and West Virginia. Still two short of the news page's 35. Counted programmatically on the fetched page, and by reading the raw list.",
      "url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
      "quote": "The following jurisdictions have passed the Compact Language.",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F07",
      "claim": "The same Commission's news page states 35 states. This is the correct figure. On 2026-10-30 it is still the news page's latest figure.",
      "url": "https://swcompact.org/news2/",
      "quote": "As of July 2026, the Social Work Licensure Compact has now passed in 35 states.",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F08",
      "claim": "An older post on the same news page, still live, gives a fourth figure of 32.",
      "url": "https://swcompact.org/news2/",
      "quote": "There are 32 states in the Compact as of May 18, 2026.",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F09",
      "claim": "The Cosmetology Licensure Compact homepage describes activation as a future event contingent on a seventh state enacting.",
      "url": "https://cosmetologycompact.gov/",
      "quote": "The Cosmetology Licensure Compact is not yet active. Once the 7th state enacts the compact, the activation process begins.",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F10",
      "claim": "The same site's Compact Commission page dates the seventh enactment to June 2024, 26 months before 2026-08-30. This is the correct account.",
      "url": "https://cosmetologycompact.gov/compact-commission/",
      "quote": "The Cosmetology Licensure Compact was enacted in its seventh member state in June 2024.",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F11",
      "claim": "The Interstate Massage Compact's About page timeline still lists Ohio as a member that joined in 2024, with no withdrawal recorded. On the page, '2024' and 'Ohio joined the IMpact' are adjacent timeline elements with no punctuation between them.",
      "url": "https://www.massagecompact.org/about-impact/",
      "quote": "2024 Ohio joined the IMpact",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F12",
      "claim": "The same About page, under a heading reading 'Today', frames the seven-state activation threshold as still ahead. Its last dated timeline entry is 'End of 2025'.",
      "url": "https://www.massagecompact.org/about-impact/",
      "quote": "Once seven states have enacted the compact, they will convene the inaugural meeting",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F13",
      "claim": "FSMTB's IMpact page lists a published response to a CSG statement about the compact, dated 22 January 2026. The page prints the apostrophe in CSG's as a typographic (curly) apostrophe; this record and the article use a straight one.",
      "url": "https://fsmtb.org/impact/",
      "quote": "FSMTB Response to CSG's Statement Regarding the Interstate Massage Compact",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F14",
      "claim": "The same page lists an FSMTB statement on proposed revisions to the compact, dated 3 November 2025.",
      "url": "https://fsmtb.org/impact/",
      "quote": "FSMTB Statement on the Proposed Revisions to the Interstate Massage Compact",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F15",
      "claim": "The Counseling Compact is currently live in seven states. This is the correct current figure.",
      "url": "https://counselingcompact.gov/",
      "quote": "The Counseling Compact is live for licensees in Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Ohio.",
      "as_of": "2026-08-30",
      "superseded_on": "2026-10-30",
      "superseded_by": "F15-2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F15-2026-10-30",
      "claim": "On 2026-10-30 the Counseling Compact is live in eleven states: the seven of F15 plus Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wyoming.",
      "url": "https://counselingcompact.gov/",
      "quote": "The Counseling Compact is live for licensees in Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wyoming.",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F16",
      "claim": "counselingcompact.gov carries a dated update line recording the most recent state to go live.",
      "url": "https://counselingcompact.gov/",
      "quote": "UPDATE: July 30, 2026. Arkansas goes live in the Compact.",
      "as_of": "2026-08-30",
      "superseded_on": "2026-10-30",
      "superseded_by": "F16-2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F16-2026-10-30",
      "claim": "On 2026-10-30 the homepage's dated line records Missouri, the eleventh state, going live on 2026-10-19. The July 30 Arkansas line is no longer on the page.",
      "url": "https://counselingcompact.gov/",
      "quote": "October 19, 2026, 10:30 a.m. ET: Missouri goes live in the Compact.",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F17",
      "claim": "The Counseling Compact first went live on 2025-09-30 in two states, establishing the start of the 2-to-7 progression over ten months.",
      "url": "https://counselingcompact.gov/counseling-compact-will-go-live-in-arizona-and-minnesota/",
      "quote": "The Counseling Compact will officially go live on September 30, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. ET in Arizona and Minnesota",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F18",
      "claim": "A currently-indexed 2026 page publishes six live states, one short and about thirty days stale.",
      "url": "https://www.wellnesscollaborative.io/counseling-compact-states/",
      "quote": "only six were operational and issuing privileges as of June 2026: Arizona, Minnesota, Ohio, Louisiana, Georgia, and Indiana",
      "as_of": "2026-08-30",
      "superseded_on": "2026-10-30",
      "superseded_by": "F18-2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F18-2026-10-30",
      "claim": "On 2026-10-30 the page still publishes six live states, now five short of the commission's eleven and three months stale (Arkansas went live 2026-07-30).",
      "url": "https://www.wellnesscollaborative.io/counseling-compact-states/",
      "quote": "only six were operational and issuing privileges as of June 2026: Arizona, Minnesota, Ohio, Louisiana, Georgia, and Indiana",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F19",
      "claim": "A second currently-indexed 2026 page publishes the same six-state list, omitting Arkansas.",
      "url": "https://hcrnetwork.com/2026-counseling-compact-update-more-states-are-moving-toward-interstate-practice/",
      "quote": "States now actively issuing privileges to practice: Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota & Ohio",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F20",
      "claim": "A third currently-indexed 2026 page publishes the same six-state list, omitting Arkansas.",
      "url": "https://www.triadhq.com/blog/counseling-compact-goes-live-2026",
      "quote": "Arizona, Minnesota, Ohio, Louisiana, Georgia, and Indiana among them is now issuing the privilege to practice",
      "as_of": "2026-08-30",
      "superseded_on": "2026-10-30",
      "superseded_by": "F20-2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F20-2026-10-30",
      "claim": "Quote corrected, page unchanged: F20's transcription dropped the em dash before 'is now issuing'. The 2026-08-30 archived page and the 2026-10-30 fetch both carry it, and the article's blockquote always had it. Still the same six-state list, omitting Arkansas and the four states that went live after 2026-08-30.",
      "url": "https://www.triadhq.com/blog/counseling-compact-goes-live-2026",
      "quote": "Arizona, Minnesota, Ohio, Louisiana, Georgia, and Indiana among them — is now issuing the privilege to practice",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F21",
      "claim": "A maintained tracker carrying a visible update date lists all seven live states including Arkansas, and is correct today.",
      "url": "https://compactready.com/counseling-compact-states.html",
      "quote": "Updated August 2026",
      "as_of": "2026-08-30",
      "superseded_on": "2026-10-30",
      "superseded_by": "F21-2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F21-2026-10-30",
      "claim": "On 2026-10-30 the same tracker carries a new update date and lists all eleven live states, Missouri included, matching the commission.",
      "url": "https://compactready.com/counseling-compact-states.html",
      "quote": "Updated October 2026",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F22",
      "claim": "A second maintained tracker carrying a visible update date lists all seven live states and is correct today.",
      "url": "https://therapyexpanded.com/licensure-compacts/counseling-compact/",
      "quote": "Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Ohio",
      "as_of": "2026-08-30",
      "superseded_on": "2026-10-30",
      "superseded_by": "F22-2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "F22-2026-10-30",
      "claim": "On 2026-10-30 the second tracker reads 'Updated October 19, 2026' (it read 'Last updated: August 3, 2026' on 2026-08-30) and lists all eleven live states, matching the commission.",
      "url": "https://therapyexpanded.com/licensure-compacts/counseling-compact/",
      "quote": "Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wyoming",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    }
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  "self_implicating_claims": [
    {
      "id": "S01",
      "claim": "During research for this article on 2026-08-29, a web search summary repeated massagecompact.org's SB 279 attribution into the author's working notes. It was corrected by a primary-source check against the Ohio legislature's pages for SB 279 and SB 276 before reaching any deliverable. Evidence: this project's own session record and the two Ohio legislature fetches archived under .evidence/.",
      "url": "https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/sb279",
      "quote": "Ban discouraging, barring law enforcement from carrying off duty",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "S02",
      "claim": "An early version of the re-verification script for this article de-duplicated repeated text lines before matching, which broke word adjacency in the massage compact timeline and falsely reported contradiction F11 as fixed. A byte-level SHA-256 comparison against the 2026-08-28 fetch showed the file was identical. The de-duplication was removed and the reason recorded in the script.",
      "url": "https://www.massagecompact.org/about-impact/",
      "quote": "2024 Ohio joined the IMpact",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "S03",
      "claim": "The re-verification script's list of state names had no Alaska and no Hawaii. On 2026-08-30 that cost nothing, because Alaska was not on the jurisdictions page; on 2026-10-30, with Alaska added, the script counted 32 where the page lists 33. Caught by reading the raw list against the count. Both names were added and the reason recorded in the script.",
      "url": "https://swcompact.org/compact-jurisdictions/",
      "quote": "The following jurisdictions have passed the Compact Language.",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    }
  ],
  "not_supported": [
    {
      "id": "N01",
      "claim": "The working brief for this article suggested currently-indexed 2026 pages still state THREE live counseling-compact states. Not supported by what was found. The three stale pages located on 2026-08-30 (F18, F19, F20) all state SIX. Three was correct between 2026-01-05 and roughly 2026-04; no live page publishing it was located on 2026-08-30, so the article uses six.",
      "url": "https://www.wellnesscollaborative.io/counseling-compact-states/",
      "quote": "only six were operational and issuing privileges as of June 2026: Arizona, Minnesota, Ohio, Louisiana, Georgia, and Indiana",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "N02",
      "claim": "The working brief described the counseling-compact live-count progression as spanning nine months. Measured from the commission's own dated announcements it is ten: 2025-09-30 (two states) to 2026-07-30 (seven). The article uses ten.",
      "url": "https://counselingcompact.gov/counseling-compact-will-go-live-in-arizona-and-minnesota/",
      "quote": "The Counseling Compact will officially go live on September 30, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. ET in Arizona and Minnesota",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    }
  ],
  "undated_in_source": [
    {
      "id": "U01",
      "claim": "Louisiana (fourth) and Georgia (fifth) go-live dates are given in the article as approximate months (~2026-04 and ~2026-06). Their exact dates were not located on a primary source within this pass and are marked UNVERIFIED. The 2025-09-30 start, the 2026-06-08 Indiana date and the 2026-07-30 Arkansas date are all primary-sourced.",
      "url": "https://counselingcompact.gov/",
      "quote": "UPDATE: July 30, 2026. Arkansas goes live in the Compact.",
      "as_of": "2026-08-30",
      "superseded_on": "2026-10-30",
      "superseded_by": "U01-2026-10-30"
    },
    {
      "id": "U01-2026-10-30",
      "claim": "On 2026-10-30 the Louisiana and Georgia dates are still not primary-sourced, and neither are the Wyoming, Tennessee and Oklahoma go-live dates (between 2026-08-30 and 2026-10-19; a tracker gives dates, the commission's homepage does not). The Missouri date, 2026-10-19, is primary-sourced (F16-2026-10-30). The Arkansas line U01 quoted is no longer on the homepage.",
      "url": "https://counselingcompact.gov/",
      "quote": "October 19, 2026, 10:30 a.m. ET: Missouri goes live in the Compact.",
      "accessed_at": "2026-10-30"
    }
  ]
}