Bill Emmerson
- Republican
Author
Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of marriage and family therapists by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law specifies the education required for licensure, which includes a requirement for a practicum that involves direct client contact and hours of experience relating to client centered advocacy, as defined. Existing law authorizes trainees to perform activities and services in certain work settings provided that these constitute part of the trainee's supervised course of study and the person is designated as a trainee. Existing law also authorizes trainees to gain hours of experience outside the required practicum under certain conditions, but requires trainees who gain experience outside the required practicum to be enrolled in a practicum in order to counsel clients. This bill would provide that trainees may also counsel clients while not enrolled in a practicum if the period of lapsed enrollment is less than 90 calendar days, and if that period is immediately preceded and immediately followed by enrollment in a practicum course. The bill would reduce the maximum number of hours that may be gained by engaging in client centered advocacy, as specified. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family therapist to complete a specified number of hours of supervised experience. For those purposes, existing law requires the supervision of a marriage and family therapy intern or trainee by a supervisor, defined as, among other things, a person who has been licensed for at least 2 years as a marriage and family therapist, licensed clinical social worker, licensed psychologist, or licensed physician certified in psychiatry. This bill would authorize a licensed professional clinical counselor to act as a supervisor of a marriage and family therapy intern or trainee if he or she meets additional training and education requirements, as specified. This bill would incorporate changes to Sections 4980.36 and 4980.42 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 943 and this bill if SB 943 is also enacted and this bill is chaptered last.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 384, Statutes of 2011.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2402.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2939.) Ordered to the Senate.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. (Page 2770.)
From consent calendar.
Ordered to third reading.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 13).
Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 901.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing May 2.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 616.) (April 11).
Set for hearing April 11.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB363 | HTML |
| 02/15/11 - Introduced | |
| 03/21/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/25/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/01/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/12/11 - Enrolled | |
| 09/30/11 - Chaptered |
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