Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinical social workers by the Board of Behavioral Sciences, which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure to comply with specified educational and experience requirements. Existing law requires a person who wishes to be credited with experience toward licensure to register with the board as an associate clinical social worker prior to obtaining that experience.
California AB 456 (20172018) — Healing arts: associate clinical social workers.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinical social workers by the Board of Behavioral Sciences, which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure to comply with specified educational and experience requirements. Existing law requires a person who wishes to be credited with experience toward licensure to register with the board as an associate clinical social worker prior to obtaining that experience.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2017-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2017-02-27 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
2017-03-27 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
2017-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
2017-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2017-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2017-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1389.) 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 B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
2017-05-31 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2017-06-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2018-04-02 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
2018-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-05-07 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
2018-06-25 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2018-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-07-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5034.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-07-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2018-08-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6132.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2018-08-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
2018-08-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-08-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 158, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5938248f-8fff-4760-8d69-18c0ab728d25. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).