---
type: "Bill"
title: "Psychologists: suicide prevention training."
description: "Existing law, the Psychology Licensing Law, provides for the licensing and regulation of psychologists and requires a person applying for licensure as a psychologist to have completed specified coursework or training. Existing law also requires licensed psychologists to participate in continuing professional development as a prerequisite for renewing their licenses. Existing law requires a person applying for relicensure or for reinstatement to an active license status to certify under penalty of perjury that he or she has fulfilled the continuing professional development requirements. Existing law defines \"continuing professional development\" as certain continuing education learning activities and provides requirements for continuing education courses approved to meet the continuing professional development requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 89"
citation: "California AB 89 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Psychologists: suicide prevention training."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Levine"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-01-09"
last_action: "2017-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73a2f97a-cbe9-45e6-9c63-6f9d022c8c78"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB89"
source_hash: "a9141d898a9e8aab5a41e6e2a21d5f84699f1018668ecafcf12773a4809c455e"
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 89 (20172018) — Psychologists: suicide prevention training.

Existing law, the Psychology Licensing Law, provides for the licensing and regulation of psychologists and requires a person applying for licensure as a psychologist to have completed specified coursework or training. Existing law also requires licensed psychologists to participate in continuing professional development as a prerequisite for renewing their licenses. Existing law requires a person applying for relicensure or for reinstatement to an active license status to certify under penalty of perjury that he or she has fulfilled the continuing professional development requirements. Existing law defines "continuing professional development" as certain continuing education learning activities and provides requirements for continuing education courses approved to meet the continuing professional development requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/09/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB89&version=20170AB8999INT)
2. **09/01/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB89&version=20170AB8997CHP)
3. **AB89** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB89)
4. **08/23/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB89&version=20170AB8998ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB89 Levine et al. By Hill — **37–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 89 LEVINE Assembly Third Reading — **72–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Levine — primary (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** Coauthors revised.
- **2017-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 1130.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-26** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 2174.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-22** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-08-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 182, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73a2f97a-cbe9-45e6-9c63-6f9d022c8c78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).