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Bill	Marriage and family therapists.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law specifies the education required for licensure, which includes, for specified applicants, a requirement for a practicum that involves direct client contact and hours of experience relating to client-centered advocacy, as defined. Existing law authorizes trainees to perform activities and services in certain work settings provided that these constitute part of the trainee's supervised course of study and the person is designated as a trainee. Existing law also authorizes trainees to gain hours of experience outside the required practicum under certain conditions, but requires trainees who gain experience outside the required practicum to be enrolled in a practicum in order to counsel clients, except that trainees may counsel clients while not enrolled in a practicum if the period of lapsed enrollment is less than 90 calendar days, and if that period is immediately preceded and immediately followed by enrollment in a practicum course. Existing law specifies requirements of the degree program that an applicant must complete to be eligible for licensure.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 632	California SB 632 (20112012)	bill	Marriage and family therapists.	enacted	Emmerson	9	33	5	2011-02-18	2012-07-03	openstates	ocd-bill/59165192-9136-4e9b-b9c2-0dbad34a35e9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB632	0840588f493d555ba71889c45e7963de4b4e4206b57cc8e398de48e2e81f0173	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 632 (20112012) — Marriage and family therapists.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law specifies the education required for licensure, which includes, for specified applicants, a requirement for a practicum that involves direct client contact and hours of experience relating to client-centered advocacy, as defined. Existing law authorizes trainees to perform activities and services in certain work settings provided that these constitute part of the trainee's supervised course of study and the person is designated as a trainee. Existing law also authorizes trainees to gain hours of experience outside the required practicum under certain conditions, but requires trainees who gain experience outside the required practicum to be enrolled in a practicum in order to counsel clients, except that trainees may counsel clients while not enrolled in a practicum if the period of lapsed enrollment is less than 90 calendar days, and if that period is immediately preceded and immediately followed by enrollment in a practicum course. Existing law specifies requirements of the degree program that an applicant must complete to be eligible for licensure.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/23/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/24/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/26/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/06/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/03/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB632 (committee substitute) — source
9. 06/19/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business (Urgency Clause) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading (Urgency Clause) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 632 Emmerson Third Reading Urgency By HAYASHI — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Emmerson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2011-04-01 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2011-04-07 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-04-08 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2011-04-11 Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-04-12 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2011-05-02 Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-01-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-01-05 Set for hearing January 9.
• 2012-01-10 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 2622.) (January 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-13 From consent calendar.
• 2012-01-13 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-01-23 Read third time and amended. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-23 Ordered to second reading.
• 2012-01-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-26 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2723.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-04-12 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-04-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-06-14 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5304.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-06-14 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-06-18 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3955.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-06-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2012-07-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-07-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 50, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/59165192-9136-4e9b-b9c2-0dbad34a35e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).