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Bill	Board of Behavioral Sciences: licensees: suicide prevention training.	Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, the Educational Psychologist Practice Act, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists, educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and professional clinical counselors, respectively, by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires a person applying for licensure as a marriage and family therapist, educational psychologist, clinical social worker, or professional clinical counselor to complete specified coursework and training, requires licensees to complete specified continuing education requirements, and requires a licensee on inactive status to complete certain continuing education requirements as a condition of having his or her license reactivated.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1436	California AB 1436 (20172018)	bill	Board of Behavioral Sciences: licensees: suicide prevention training.	enacted	Levine	9	30	5	2017-02-17	2018-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/e290a684-3b4b-40f9-8fb9-196d531cabce	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1436	86721f087ed2999f9c0cbe4a2254be31e51be2960bfb9998eebd5722864cc63f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1436 (20172018) — Board of Behavioral Sciences: licensees: suicide prevention training.

Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, the Educational Psychologist Practice Act, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists, educational psychologists, clinical social workers, and professional clinical counselors, respectively, by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires a person applying for licensure as a marriage and family therapist, educational psychologist, clinical social worker, or professional clinical counselor to complete specified coursework and training, requires licensees to complete specified continuing education requirements, and requires a licensee on inactive status to complete certain continuing education requirements as a condition of having his or her license reactivated.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/04/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/13/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/20/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/19/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1436 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/31/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1436 LEVINE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 15–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1436 Levine et al. By Hill — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1436 LEVINE Assembly Third Reading — 44–28 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Levine — primary (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-27 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2017-05-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (May 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 28. Page 1654.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-06-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-06-26 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-25 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2018-05-25 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-05-30 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2018-06-04 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-13 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5440.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-23 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2018-08-28 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 15. Noes 2.) (August 28). committee-passage
• 2018-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6879.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 527, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e290a684-3b4b-40f9-8fb9-196d531cabce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).