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Bill	Psychologists: licensure.	Existing law, the Psychology Licensing Law, establishes the Board of Psychology to license and regulate the practice of psychology. Existing law requires each applicant for licensure as a psychologist to take and pass any examination required by the board, except as exempted by the board under existing law. Existing law prescribes additional requirements for licensure, including a requirement that an applicant for licensure have earned a doctoral degree in any of specified fields of study.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 282	California AB 282 (20232024)	bill	Psychologists licensure	enacted	Aguiar-Curry	6	23	6	2023-01-24	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/d5574fc2-46e9-4c38-93f4-5b61344979be	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB282	28484a40c4580f73a0ece417c9d9f372bb4aad5058baa45ab82fe6a23d6272fc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 282 (20232024) — Psychologists: licensure.

Existing law, the Psychology Licensing Law, establishes the Board of Psychology to license and regulate the practice of psychology. Existing law requires each applicant for licensure as a psychologist to take and pass any examination required by the board, except as exempted by the board under existing law. Existing law prescribes additional requirements for licensure, including a requirement that an applicant for licensure have earned a doctoral degree in any of specified fields of study.

Version chain

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

1. 01/24/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/14/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB282 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 282 Aguiar-Curry Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB282 Aguiar-Curry By Menjivar — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 282 Aguiar-Curry Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-01-25 From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
• 2023-02-02 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 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
• 2023-03-22 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 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-08-14 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
• 2023-08-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2375.). 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 3016.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 425, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d5574fc2-46e9-4c38-93f4-5b61344979be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).