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Bill	Healing arts: behavioral sciences: licensure.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, educational psychologists, and professional clinical counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law fixes the license fees and creates the Behavioral Sciences Fund in the State Treasury into which these license fees are deposited. Existing law specifies requirements for renewal of these licenses, including completing continuing education, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 2191	California AB 2191 (20092010)	bill	Healing arts: behavioral sciences: licensure.	enacted	Emmerson	9	28	7	2010-02-18	2010-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/3a6894be-fbb6-4c31-b3ff-b26790d9c6cd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2191	d9519d319253f4c1df8a11d41754e0d4c4561c04a3ae9133b75fb495f0dbe6d0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2191 (20092010) — Healing arts: behavioral sciences: licensure.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, educational psychologists, and professional clinical counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law fixes the license fees and creates the Behavioral Sciences Fund in the State Treasury into which these license fees are deposited. Existing law specifies requirements for renewal of these licenses, including completing continuing education, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/27/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2191 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/30/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Assembly 3rd Reading AB2191 Emmerson By Emmerson — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2191 Concurrence in Senate Amendments By HAYASHI — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2191 EMMERSON Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Emmerson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2010-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2010-03-04 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2010-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2010-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2010-04-06 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-04-21 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-04-22 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-04-29 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4942.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-04-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-05-13 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2010-05-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-05-27 (Corrected May 28.)
• 2010-06-17 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-08-04 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-18 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-19 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4704.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-23 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6463.)
• 2010-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6523.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-09-03 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:45 p.m.
• 2010-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 548, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a6894be-fbb6-4c31-b3ff-b26790d9c6cd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).