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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Board of Behavioral Sciences: licensure requirements."
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description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and professional clinical counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires applicants for licensure in those professions to comply with specified educational and experience requirements, including, but not limited to, hours of supervised experience, and sets forth terms, conditions, and limitations for those hours of experience, as specified."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "SB 620"
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citation: "California SB 620 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Board of Behavioral Sciences: licensure requirements."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Block"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 29
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2015-02-27"
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last_action: "2015-09-03"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ff22526-41f3-47f9-a020-c5085656627d"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB620"
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source_hash: "ac3b060fd135bdddb7f82cd5c7aad14a55fed3d600314a3a3aed09d9ba9e869c"
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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 620 (20152016) — Board of Behavioral Sciences: licensure requirements.
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Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and professional clinical counselors by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires applicants for licensure in those professions to comply with specified educational and experience requirements, including, but not limited to, hours of supervised experience, and sets forth terms, conditions, and limitations for those hours of experience, as specified.
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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. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB620&version=20150SB62099INT)
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2. **04/06/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB620&version=20150SB62098AMD)
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3. **04/15/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB620&version=20150SB62097AMD)
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4. **05/07/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB620&version=20150SB62096AMD)
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5. **07/02/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB620&version=20150SB62095AMD)
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6. **09/03/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB620&version=20150SB62093CHP)
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7. **SB620** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB620)
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8. **08/24/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB620&version=20150SB62094ENR)
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## Votes
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- SB 620 Block Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- Special Consent #6 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Block — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
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- **2015-03-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
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- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
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- **2015-03-12** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-03-18** Set for hearing April 13.
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- **2015-04-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-14** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 591.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-04-15** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-04-17** Set for hearing April 27.
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- **2015-04-27** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2015-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-07** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-07** Ordered to second reading.
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- **2015-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1019.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-18** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-06-15** June 16 hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2015-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-07-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-07-08** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-07-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2434.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-07-16** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2015-08-19** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2015-08-20** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2015-09-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-09-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 262, Statutes of 2015.
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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/8ff22526-41f3-47f9-a020-c5085656627d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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