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type: "Bill"
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title: "Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program: former foster youth."
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description: "Existing law authorizes any licensed mental health service provider, as defined, including a marriage and family therapist, associate marriage and family therapist, licensed clinical social worker, and associate clinical social worker, who provides direct patient care in a publicly funded facility or a mental health professional shortage area, as defined, to apply for grants under the Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program to reimburse his or her educational loans related to a career as a licensed mental health service provider, as specified. Existing law establishes the Mental Health Practitioner Education Fund and provides that moneys in that fund are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "AB 2608"
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citation: "California AB 2608 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program: former foster youth."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Mark Stone"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 27
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2018-02-15"
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last_action: "2018-09-20"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16732087-0592-4117-aac0-9acb4b95a3f1"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2608"
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source_hash: "6454cca78455cf38c5d7bb9430762e001b7787dcded02cbd1a6ca933c110f804"
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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 AB 2608 (20172018) — Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program: former foster youth.
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Existing law authorizes any licensed mental health service provider, as defined, including a marriage and family therapist, associate marriage and family therapist, licensed clinical social worker, and associate clinical social worker, who provides direct patient care in a publicly funded facility or a mental health professional shortage area, as defined, to apply for grants under the Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program to reimburse his or her educational loans related to a career as a licensed mental health service provider, as specified. Existing law establishes the Mental Health Practitioner Education Fund and provides that moneys in that fund are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program.
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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. **02/15/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2608&version=20170AB260899INT)
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2. **03/15/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2608&version=20170AB260898AMD)
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3. **04/03/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2608&version=20170AB260897AMD)
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4. **06/14/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2608&version=20170AB260896AMD)
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5. **06/20/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2608&version=20170AB260895AMD)
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6. **07/05/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2608&version=20170AB260894AMD)
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7. **09/20/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2608&version=20170AB260892CHP)
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8. **AB2608** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2608)
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9. **08/29/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2608&version=20170AB260893ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–4** (pass) · lower
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- AB 2608 STONE Assembly Third Reading — **54–24** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–2** (pass) · upper
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- AB 2608 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **61–13** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB2608 Mark Stone et al. By Beall — **32–4** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Health] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **12–3** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Mark Stone — primary (person)
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- Gipson — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2018-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
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- **2018-03-15** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-03-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2018-05-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 24. Page 5663.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2018-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2018-06-13** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-06-14** 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`
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- **2018-06-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2018-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
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- **2018-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2018-07-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
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- **2018-08-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2018-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 5511.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2018-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2018-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 13. Page 6625.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2018-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2018-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2018-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 585, Statutes of 2018.
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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/16732087-0592-4117-aac0-9acb4b95a3f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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