---
type: "Bill"
title: "Immunity: marriage and family therapy schools."
description: "Immunity: marriage and family therapy schools."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 164"
citation: "California AB 164 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Immunity: marriage and family therapy schools."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smyth"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2007-01-22"
last_action: "2008-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f60197ce-6c82-445d-a22a-73193e80207a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB164"
source_hash: "b652eea60c9d6234152bf1c935849a43443c75e17495b98239057f0e2f238e5a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 164 (20072008) — Immunity: marriage and family therapy schools.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/22/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB164&version=20070AB16499INT)
2. **01/14/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB164&version=20070AB16495AMD)
3. **03/05/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB164&version=20070AB16498AMD)
4. **04/16/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB164&version=20070AB16497AMD)
5. **05/09/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB164&version=20070AB16496AMD)
6. **06/06/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB164&version=20070AB16493CHP)
7. **AB164** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB164)
8. **05/23/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB164&version=20070AB16494ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB164 Smyth — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 164 SMYTH Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Smyth — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2007-01-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-01-23** From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
- **2007-02-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-03-06** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2007-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-17** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2007-05-08** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (May 1). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-09** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-05-21** To inactive file on motion of Assembly Member Bass.
- **2008-01-07** Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Bass.
- **2008-01-08** From inactive file. To third reading.
- **2008-01-14** Read third time. `reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-01-14** Amended.
- **2008-01-14** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2008-01-14** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 3700.)
- **2008-01-15** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2008-01-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (January 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-01-16** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-01-17** From Consent Calendar. To third reading pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.
- **2008-01-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3780.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-01-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2008-01-31** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-05-15** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-05-22** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3866.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-05-22** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2008-05-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:45 a.m.
- **2008-06-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-06-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 23, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f60197ce-6c82-445d-a22a-73193e80207a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).