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Bill	Temporary practice allowances.	Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, generally govern the provision of marriage and family therapy services, clinical social work services, and professional clinical counseling services, respectively, in the state and prohibit a person from practicing those healing arts without a license granted pursuant to the respective provisions of each act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 232	California AB 232 (20232024)	bill	Temporary practice allowances	enacted	Aguiar-Curry	8	23	7	2023-01-12	2023-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/ca2e7951-b781-49c5-84ff-b9dddbfdfd99	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB232	91eb9753da4dfb590b7a7b5259ca10ab594de2334d94603f5d7e6dc7a210a7b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 232 (20232024) — Temporary practice allowances.

Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, generally govern the provision of marriage and family therapy services, clinical social work services, and professional clinical counseling services, respectively, in the state and prohibit a person from practicing those healing arts without a license granted pursuant to the respective provisions of each act.

Version chain

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

1. 01/12/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/08/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/07/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/10/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB232 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 232 Aguiar-Curry Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 232 Aguiar-Curry Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB232 Aguiar-Curry By Ochoa Bogh — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-01-13 From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
• 2023-02-02 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2023-03-08 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-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-09 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1362.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-04-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-10 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. referral-committee
• 2023-05-31 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-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 5). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-22 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 21). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2362.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3015.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 640, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca2e7951-b781-49c5-84ff-b9dddbfdfd99. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).