Bill Emmerson
- Republican
Author
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law specifies the education required for licensure, which includes, for specified applicants, 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, except that trainees may 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. Existing law specifies requirements of the degree program that an applicant must complete to be eligible for licensure. This bill would revise these provisions to allow trainees who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and complete that study on or before December 31, 2018, to gain experience and counsel clients outside of a practicum. The bill, with respect to certain trainees, including trainees who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and do not complete that study on or before December 31, 2018, would allow those trainees to gain experience and counsel clients outside of a practicum provided that the period of lapse is immediately preceded by enrollment in a practicum course and immediately followed by enrollment in a practicum course or completion of the degree program. Some of these provisions would operate retroactively from January 1, 2012, and the bill would state the intent of the Legislature in that regard. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 50, Statutes of 2012.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3955.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5304.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2723.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended.
Ordered to second reading.
Ordered to third reading.
From consent calendar.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 2622.) (January 9).
Set for hearing January 9.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.
Hearing postponed by committee.
Set for hearing May 2.
Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 25.
Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 11.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB632 | HTML |
| 02/18/11 - Introduced | |
| 03/24/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 01/04/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 01/23/12 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/26/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/06/12 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/19/12 - Enrolled | |
| 07/03/12 - Chaptered |
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