republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-1012.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Healing arts: licensure requirements."
description: "Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, provides for the licensure or registration and regulation of marriage and family therapists and interns by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires each applicant for licensure to complete a certain number of hours of experience prior to applying for licensure. Existing law provides that the provision only applies to hours of experience gained on and after January 1, 2010."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 1012"
citation: "California SB 1012 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Healing arts: licensure requirements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wyland"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2014-02-13"
last_action: "2014-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73cdf25c-e602-4ed4-99a4-eccde1a8e8a8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1012"
source_hash: "a617014f2fe252204545ab1ed2490d437473d18a4ecea948b95da2c2a55b6582"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 1012 (20132014) — Healing arts: licensure requirements.

Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, provides for the licensure or registration and regulation of marriage and family therapists and interns by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires each applicant for licensure to complete a certain number of hours of experience prior to applying for licensure. Existing law provides that the provision only applies to hours of experience gained on and after January 1, 2010.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1012&version=20130SB101299INT)
2. **04/21/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1012&version=20130SB101298AMD)
3. **06/09/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1012&version=20130SB101297AMD)
4. **06/11/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1012&version=20130SB101296AMD)
5. **08/07/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1012&version=20130SB101295AMD)
6. **09/18/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1012&version=20130SB101293CHP)
7. **SB1012** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1012)
8. **08/19/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1012&version=20130SB101294ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB1012 Wyland Concurrence — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1012 Wyland Senate Third Reading By JONES — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wyland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-13** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2014-02-14** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** Set for hearing April 21.
- **2014-04-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-04-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3210.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3358.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-05** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-12** Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-09** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-10** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-06-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-07** Read third time and amended. (Page 5904.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-07** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-08-14** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6015.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-14** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2014-08-18** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4546.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 435, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73cdf25c-e602-4ed4-99a4-eccde1a8e8a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).