republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-801.md

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Bill	Healing arts: Board of Behavioral Sciences: Board of Psychology: licensees.	Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of medicine by the Medical Board of California and requires a health care provider initiating the use of telehealth to inform the patient, before the delivery of health care via telehealth, about the use of telehealth and obtain verbal or written consent from the patient for the use of telehealth as an acceptable mode of delivering health care services and public health. The act defines "health care provider" to include, among others, an associate marriage and family therapist or marriage and family therapist trainee, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 801	California SB 801 (20212022)	bill	Healing arts: Board of Behavioral Sciences: Board of Psychology: licensees.	enacted	Archuleta	9	38	8	2021-02-19	2021-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/4aeba80b-4eba-4e4b-bcb9-593332e3a6d5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB801	84154f5e12daac545b7b9c24ef6b8aee4ae11f943ed1f151c62b25e9c72a87b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 801 (20212022) — Healing arts: Board of Behavioral Sciences: Board of Psychology: licensees.

Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of medicine by the Medical Board of California and requires a health care provider initiating the use of telehealth to inform the patient, before the delivery of health care via telehealth, about the use of telehealth and obtain verbal or written consent from the patient for the use of telehealth as an acceptable mode of delivering health care services and public health. The act defines "health care provider" to include, among others, an associate marriage and family therapist or marriage and family therapist trainee, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/17/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/07/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/15/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/07/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB801 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB801 Archuleta et al. By Roth Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB801 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 801 Archuleta Senate Third Reading By Low — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Archuleta — primary (person)
• Roth — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2021-04-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 841.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2021-04-27 May 3 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-04-30 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2021-05-04 May 10 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-05-07 Set for hearing May 17.
• 2021-05-17 May 17 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-18 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1205.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1348.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-17 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 14). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2897.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2590.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 647, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4aeba80b-4eba-4e4b-bcb9-593332e3a6d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).