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type: "Bill"
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title: "Healing arts: therapists and counselors: licensing."
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description: "(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists under the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, of clinical social workers under the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and of professional clinical counselors under the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law prescribes requirements for an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family therapist, clinical social worker, or professional clinical counselor who holds a valid license in good standing by a corresponding authority in any state or country, including that the applicant's education is substantially equivalent, as specified, and that the applicant's supervised experience is substantially equivalent as determined by the board. Existing law requires the board to determine substantially equivalency for these purposes based on specified standards for an applicant who has held a license for less than 4 years."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20192020"
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identifier: "SB 679"
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citation: "California SB 679 (20192020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Healing arts: therapists and counselors: licensing."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bates"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2019-02-22"
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last_action: "2019-09-27"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b54ca76e-1d6c-447f-a6e6-0cfb118b8c70"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB679"
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source_hash: "66ca703eb2885d3b5357509be90b2f04b22e0567becbf527431e23d95cab01a0"
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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 679 (20192020) — Healing arts: therapists and counselors: licensing.
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(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists under the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, of clinical social workers under the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and of professional clinical counselors under the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law prescribes requirements for an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family therapist, clinical social worker, or professional clinical counselor who holds a valid license in good standing by a corresponding authority in any state or country, including that the applicant's education is substantially equivalent, as specified, and that the applicant's supervised experience is substantially equivalent as determined by the board. Existing law requires the board to determine substantially equivalency for these purposes based on specified standards for an applicant who has held a license for less than 4 years.
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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. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB679&version=20190SB67999INT)
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2. **03/27/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB679&version=20190SB67998AMD)
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3. **04/10/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB679&version=20190SB67997AMD)
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4. **07/11/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB679&version=20190SB67996AMD)
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5. **08/22/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB679&version=20190SB67995AMD)
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6. **09/27/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB679&version=20190SB67993CHP)
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7. **SB679** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB679)
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8. **09/06/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB679&version=20190SB67994ENR)
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## Votes
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- Unfinished Business SB679 Bates et al. Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **19–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 679 Bates Senate Third Reading By Patterson — **77–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading SB679 Bates et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Bates — primary (person)
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- Chang — coauthor (person)
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- Dodd — coauthor (person)
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- Patterson — coauthor (person)
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- Wilk — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
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- **2019-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
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- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
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- **2019-03-14** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-19** Set for hearing April 8.
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- **2019-03-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 599.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-18** Set for hearing April 29.
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- **2019-04-29** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2019-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-05-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 961.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-05-07** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-06-25** June 25 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2019-07-10** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2019-07-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2019-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-08-22** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-08-22** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2019-09-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2959.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-09-03** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2019-09-04** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2019-09-04** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2530.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2019-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2019-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 380, Statutes of 2019.
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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/b54ca76e-1d6c-447f-a6e6-0cfb118b8c70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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