Healing arts: licensees: Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists and marriage and family therapist interns and trainees by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires the issuance of a license to practice marriage and family therapy to qualified applicants, as defined, who pass a board-administered written or oral examination or, under specified circumstances, a clinical vignette written examination. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of social workers by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires each applicant to be examined by the board and, on and after January 1, 2014, upon a specified determination by the board, requires the issuance of a license to each applicant or registrant meeting specified requirements who successfully passes the Association of Social Work Boards Clinical Level Examination administered by the Association of Social Work Boards and a separate California jurisprudence and ethics examination incorporated or developed and administered by the board.
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California Legislature
20112012
SB 704
California SB 704 (20112012)
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Healing arts: licensees: Board of Behavioral Sciences.
California SB 704 (20112012) — Healing arts: licensees: Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists and marriage and family therapist interns and trainees by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires the issuance of a license to practice marriage and family therapy to qualified applicants, as defined, who pass a board-administered written or oral examination or, under specified circumstances, a clinical vignette written examination. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of social workers by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires each applicant to be examined by the board and, on and after January 1, 2014, upon a specified determination by the board, requires the issuance of a license to each applicant or registrant meeting specified requirements who successfully passes the Association of Social Work Boards Clinical Level Examination administered by the Association of Social Work Boards and a separate California jurisprudence and ethics examination incorporated or developed and administered by the board.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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 B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
2011-03-25 Set for hearing April 4.
2011-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 541.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-04-13 Set for hearing May 2.
2011-05-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
2011-05-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2011-05-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 984.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2011-05-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2011-05-23 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
2011-06-06 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
2011-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-07-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-07-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2011-07-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 10. Page 2334.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2011-07-14 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2011-08-15 Ordered to the Assembly.
2011-08-15 In Assembly. Held at Desk.
2011-08-15 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read a third time, passed, and ordered to Senate.
2011-08-15 Ordered to third reading.
2011-08-25 Read third time and amended. (Page 2581.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
2011-08-25 Ordered to third reading.
2011-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 3. Page 2747.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2011-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2011-09-01 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2244.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2011-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:45 a.m.
2011-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2011-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 387, Statutes of 2011.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2befbe5c-212c-4f46-acc1-0ea70599e0cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).