Persons of unsound mind: psychotherapist duty to protect.
Existing law provides that no monetary liability and no cause of action arises against a psychotherapist, as defined, for failing to warn and protect from a patient's threatened violent behavior except if the patient has communicated to the psychotherapist a serious threat of physical violence against a reasonably identifiable victim or victims. Existing law also specifies that no monetary liability and no cause of action shall arise against a psychotherapist who, under those circumstances, discharges his or her duty to warn and protect by making reasonable efforts to communicate the threat to the victim or victims and to a law enforcement agency.
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California Legislature
20112012
SB 1134
California SB 1134 (20112012)
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Persons of unsound mind: psychotherapist duty to protect.
California SB 1134 (20112012) — Persons of unsound mind: psychotherapist duty to protect.
Existing law provides that no monetary liability and no cause of action arises against a psychotherapist, as defined, for failing to warn and protect from a patient's threatened violent behavior except if the patient has communicated to the psychotherapist a serious threat of physical violence against a reasonably identifiable victim or victims. Existing law also specifies that no monetary liability and no cause of action shall arise against a psychotherapist who, under those circumstances, discharges his or her duty to warn and protect by making reasonable efforts to communicate the threat to the victim or victims and to a law enforcement agency.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
SB 1134 Yee Consent Calendar Second Day — 80–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
Special Consent #10 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Yee — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2012-02-21 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2012-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2012-03-01 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2012-03-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2012-04-20 Set for hearing May 1.
2012-05-07 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3389.) (May 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-05-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2012-05-09 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2012-05-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3496.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2012-05-14 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2012-06-11 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2012-06-26 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2012-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2012-07-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5562.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2012-07-02 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2012-07-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
2012-07-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2012-07-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 149, Statutes of 2012.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1924952d-f8b7-4e74-ae88-0137a2d994c5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).