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type: "Bill"
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title: "Healing arts: licensees: Board of Behavioral Sciences."
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description: "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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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20112012"
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identifier: "SB 704"
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citation: "California SB 704 (20112012)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Healing arts: licensees: Board of Behavioral Sciences."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Negrete McLeod"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 29
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2011-02-18"
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last_action: "2011-09-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2befbe5c-212c-4f46-acc1-0ea70599e0cc"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB704"
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source_hash: "83890d1225568c830d8f932f5611bd3f96ce2954a9a0271a407703d445de8310"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 704 (20112012) — Healing arts: licensees: Board of Behavioral Sciences.
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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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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB704&version=20110SB70499INT)
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2. **05/05/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB704&version=20110SB70498AMD)
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3. **06/06/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB704&version=20110SB70497AMD)
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4. **08/25/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB704&version=20110SB70496AMD)
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5. **09/30/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB704&version=20110SB70494CHP)
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6. **SB704** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB704)
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7. **09/02/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB704&version=20110SB70495ENR)
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## Votes
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- SB 704 Negrete McLeod Senate Third Reading By YAMADA — **66–10** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading SB704 Negrete McLeod — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
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- SB 704 Negrete McLeod Senate Third Reading By YAMADA — **74–3** (pass) · lower
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- Unfinished Business SB704 Negrete McLeod Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Negrete McLeod — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2011-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
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- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-03-25** Set for hearing April 4.
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- **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`
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- **2011-04-13** Set for hearing May 2.
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- **2011-05-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-05-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-05-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 984.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2011-05-16** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2011-05-23** Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2011-07-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2011-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2011-07-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 10. Page 2334.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2011-07-14** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2011-08-15** Ordered to the Assembly.
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- **2011-08-15** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
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- **2011-08-15** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read a third time, passed, and ordered to Senate.
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- **2011-08-15** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2011-08-25** Read third time and amended. (Page 2581.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-08-25** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2011-08-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 3. Page 2747.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2011-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2011-09-01** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2244.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2011-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:45 a.m.
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- **2011-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2011-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 387, Statutes of 2011.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2befbe5c-212c-4f46-acc1-0ea70599e0cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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