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Bill	Healing arts: therapists and counselors: licensing.	Existing law provides for the licensure or registration and regulation of marriage and family therapists and interns and professional clinical counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Under existing law, the board may issue a license to an applicant who holds a valid license from another state if, among other requirements, his or her education and supervised experience requirements are substantially similar, as specified. Under existing law, for marriage and family therapist applicants who apply for licensure or professional clinical counselor applicants who apply for examination eligibility or registration, the board is required to accept education gained outside of California toward applicable requirements if it is substantially similar and the applicant completes certain coursework and training, and may accept education as substantially equivalent if it meets certain requirements, including the completion of at least 48 semester or 72 quarter units of instruction, as specified. These provisions apply to marriage and family therapist applicants who apply between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2013, and to professional clinical counselor applicants who apply between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2013, and are operative until January 1, 2014.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 451	California AB 451 (20132014)	bill	Healing arts: therapists and counselors: licensing.	enacted	Eggman	7	24	6	2013-02-19	2013-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/50a8e47c-251e-4517-844c-847c71357c72	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB451	2c5170a0dc03d23f99a2a2ccbb6dccd73c4d6a8aa851e9b359055c680b4f3eb9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 451 (20132014) — Healing arts: therapists and counselors: licensing.

Existing law provides for the licensure or registration and regulation of marriage and family therapists and interns and professional clinical counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Under existing law, the board may issue a license to an applicant who holds a valid license from another state if, among other requirements, his or her education and supervised experience requirements are substantially similar, as specified. Under existing law, for marriage and family therapist applicants who apply for licensure or professional clinical counselor applicants who apply for examination eligibility or registration, the board is required to accept education gained outside of California toward applicable requirements if it is substantially similar and the applicant completes certain coursework and training, and may accept education as substantially equivalent if it meets certain requirements, including the completion of at least 48 semester or 72 quarter units of instruction, as specified. These provisions apply to marriage and family therapist applicants who apply between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2013, and to professional clinical counselor applicants who apply between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2013, and are operative until January 1, 2014.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/03/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/15/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/27/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/04/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB451 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 451 EGGMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 451 EGGMAN Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB451 Eggman By Yee — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eggman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2013-02-28 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-10 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1007.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-04-18 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-02 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2013-05-23 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-06-03 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-24 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-15 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-27 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2110.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2919.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2013-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 551, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/50a8e47c-251e-4517-844c-847c71357c72. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).