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Bill	Professional licensure.	(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits the licensure requirements for professional personnel, including psychologists, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and professional clinical counselors, in the state and other governmental health facilities licensed by the department from being less than for those professional personnel in health facilities under private ownership. Existing law authorizes the department to waive that requirement for persons in the profession of psychology who are gaining qualifying experience for licensure in that profession in this state, and prohibits the waiver from exceeding 3 years from the date the employment commences in this state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1456	California AB 1456 (20172018)	bill	Professional licensure.	enacted	Low	8	22	5	2017-02-17	2017-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/156b4a25-49bc-425e-8ffc-9670e19b4f48	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1456	3e7381fe9624d4caf3b07865e1a0c7f4ff2f41c8f7bbc116707fc823f4b47dde	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1456 (20172018) — Professional licensure.

(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits the licensure requirements for professional personnel, including psychologists, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and professional clinical counselors, in the state and other governmental health facilities licensed by the department from being less than for those professional personnel in health facilities under private ownership. Existing law authorizes the department to waive that requirement for persons in the profession of psychology who are gaining qualifying experience for licensure in that profession in this state, and prohibits the waiver from exceeding 3 years from the date the employment commences in this state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/31/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1456 (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1456 LOW Third Reading Urgency — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd (Urgency Clause) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1456 LOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Low — primary (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.
• 2017-03-13 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-04-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-27 From Consent Calendar by request of Assembly Member Low. To Third Reading. reading-1
• 2017-05-01 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1308.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1378.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-06-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-29 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2017-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-10 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1932.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-07-17 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2566.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-07-31 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-07-31 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 151, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/156b4a25-49bc-425e-8ffc-9670e19b4f48. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).