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Bill	Telehealth: marriage and family therapist interns and trainees.	Under existing law, "telehealth" is defined as the mode of delivering health care services and public health via information and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of a patient's health care while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site, and "health care provider" is defined as a person who is licensed under specified provisions of law relating to healing arts. Existing law requires a health care provider prior to the delivery of health care services via telehealth to inform the patient about the use of telehealth and obtain verbal or written consent from the patient for the use of telehealth. Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, provides for the registration of marriage and family therapist interns and regulates marriage and family therapist trainees. Existing law requires applicants for a marriage and family therapist license to complete specified experience subject to certain limitations, including no more than a certain number of hours providing counseling services via telehealth. Existing law requires all marriage and family therapist trainees and registrants to be supervised at all times by a supervisor, as defined, responsible for ensuring that the extent, kind, and quality of counseling performed is consistent with the training and experience of the person being supervised. Existing law requires the supervisor to be responsible to the board for compliance with all laws, rules, and regulations governing the practice of marriage and family therapy.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 250	California AB 250 (20152016)	bill	Telehealth: marriage and family therapist interns and trainees.	enacted	Obernolte	7	21	6	2015-02-09	2015-07-06	openstates	ocd-bill/fbf9179e-33f0-49fb-a1de-49fcd41c585b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB250	cba5c3b68c5b1e73273b5718a549f5fbd94e8dd96d3f561c09edd6f4597caa77	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 250 (20152016) — Telehealth: marriage and family therapist interns and trainees.

Under existing law, "telehealth" is defined as the mode of delivering health care services and public health via information and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of a patient's health care while the patient is at the originating site and the health care provider is at a distant site, and "health care provider" is defined as a person who is licensed under specified provisions of law relating to healing arts. Existing law requires a health care provider prior to the delivery of health care services via telehealth to inform the patient about the use of telehealth and obtain verbal or written consent from the patient for the use of telehealth. Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, provides for the registration of marriage and family therapist interns and regulates marriage and family therapist trainees. Existing law requires applicants for a marriage and family therapist license to complete specified experience subject to certain limitations, including no more than a certain number of hours providing counseling services via telehealth. Existing law requires all marriage and family therapist trainees and registrants to be supervised at all times by a supervisor, as defined, responsible for ensuring that the extent, kind, and quality of counseling performed is consistent with the training and experience of the person being supervised. Existing law requires the supervisor to be responsible to the board for compliance with all laws, rules, and regulations governing the practice of marriage and family therapy.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/11/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/06/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB250 (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/23/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 250 OBERNOLTE Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 250 OBERNOLTE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Obernolte — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2015-02-17 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-05-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 5). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1453.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-28 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2015-06-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1492.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-06-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2084.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2015-07-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-07-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 50, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fbf9179e-33f0-49fb-a1de-49fcd41c585b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).