California 2009-2010 Regular Session Status: Enacted 1 D cosponsors

AB 2435 — Elder and dependent adult abuse.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 552, Statutes of 2010.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 19, 2010. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 74% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 2 sponsors

    1 primary, 1 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 D).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 6 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

(1) Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of psychologists, professional clinical counselors, clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists. Existing law requires a person applying for licensure in these professions to have completed specified coursework or training in child abuse assessment and reporting from certain types of institutions. This bill would encourage the Board of Psychology and the Board of Behavioral Sciences to include in that training elder and dependent adult abuse assessment and reporting, and would also apply that training and coursework requirement to professional clinical counselors. (2) Existing law, with respect to psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, and licensed professional clinical counselors, requires a licensee to complete, as a condition of licensure and relicensure, specified coursework in aging. This bill, on and after January 1, 2012, would expand the required coursework to additionally cover elder and dependent adult abuse assessment and reporting. (3) Existing law, with respect to marriage and family therapists, requires an applicant for licensure or registration to possess a doctoral or master's degree in various disciplines, including marriage, family, and child counseling, relative to applicants who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and complete that study on or before December 31, 2018. This bill would authorize the requisite coursework related to developmental issues and life events to include coursework in abuse and neglect of older and dependent adults. (4) Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family therapist under (3) to complete a minimum of 10 contact hours of coursework in aging and long-term care, which may include the biological, social, and psychological aspects of aging. This bill, on and after January 1, 2012, would require the coursework to include instruction on the assessment and reporting of elder and dependent adult abuse and neglect and associated treatment. (5) Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family counselor, prior to applying for a licensure examination, to complete certain hours of experience. This bill would encourage those hours of experience to include working with elders and dependent adults. (6) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 4980.43 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 1489, to be operative if SB 1489 and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is enacted last.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 552, Statutes of 2010.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 70. Noes 3. Page 6488.)

  5. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6463.)

  6. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.

  7. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 6. Page 4711.)

  8. Read second time. To third reading.

  9. Read third time, amended. To second reading.

  10. Read second time. To third reading.

  11. From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

  12. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  13. From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 14).

  14. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  15. Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.

  16. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  17. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 2. Page 4978.)

  18. Read second time. To third reading.

  19. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  20. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 21).

  21. From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 6).

  22. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.

  23. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.

  24. Referred to Com. on B. & P.

  25. Read first time.

  26. From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  27. Introduced. To print.

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 120 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (1)

  • Ma

Not signed on (120)

120 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

AB 2435 LOWENTHAL Concurrence in Senate Amendments

Passed 82 Yea · 3 Nay · 5 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 76305
Democratic 3000
Republican 3000
Total 82305
% of votes cast 91%3%0%6%
How each member voted (90)
Member Party Vote
Hagman — Yea
Carter — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cook — Yea
Bill — Yea
Tom — Yea
Eng — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Charles — Yea
Gilmore — Yea
Hall — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huber — Yea
De — Yea
La — Yea
Torre — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
John — Yea
A. — Yea
Perez — Yea
Fuller — Nay
Furutani — Not Voting
Knight — Not Voting
Anderson — Nay
Swanson — Yea
Torres — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Tran — Yea
Villines — Yea
Fletcher — Yea
Fong — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Salas — Yea
Saldana — Yea
Audra — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Coto — Yea
Jeffries — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Miller — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nava — Yea
Norby — Yea
Ruskin — Yea
Silva — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Smyth — Yea
Adams — Yea
Bass — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Harkey — Not Voting
Hernandez — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Logue — Yea
Ma — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Evans — Yea
Davis — Not Voting
DeVore — Nay
Yamada — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Garrick — Not Voting
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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Assembly 3rd Reading AB2435 Bonnie Lowenthal By Negrete McLeod

Passed 27 Yea · 6 Nay · 6 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 24606
Democratic 2000
Republican 1000
Total 27606
% of votes cast 69%15%0%15%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Ashburn — Nay
Cedillo — Yea
Cogdill — Not Voting
Corbett — Yea
Ducheny — Yea
Dutton — Nay
Florez — Yea
Hollingsworth — Nay
Huff — Nay
Kehoe — Yea
Liu — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Oropeza — Not Voting
Pavley — Yea
Price — Yea
Simitian — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Walters — Not Voting
Wiggins — Not Voting
Wolk — Yea
Wyland — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Runner — Nay
Aanestad — Nay
Harman — Not Voting
Leno — Yea
Romero — Yea
Wright — Yea
Emmerson — Yea
Correa — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Denham — Not Voting
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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AB 2435 LOWENTHAL Assembly Third Reading

Passed 78 Yea · 2 Nay · 11 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 722011
Democratic 3000
Republican 3000
Total 782011
% of votes cast 86%2%0%12%
How each member voted (91)
Member Party Vote
Hagman — Yea
Hall — Not Voting
Ammiano — Yea
Beall — Yea
Eng — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Furutani — Yea
Charles — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Gilmore — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Hill — Yea
De — Yea
La — Yea
Torre — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Fletcher — Yea
Fong — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Salas — Yea
Saldana — Yea
Audra — Yea
Carter — Yea
Bill — Not Voting
Blakeslee — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Conway — Yea
Coto — Yea
Davis — Yea
Huber — Yea
Jeffries — Yea
Knight — Yea
Logue — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Miller — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Norby — Nay
Ruskin — Yea
Silva — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Torres — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Tran — Yea
Tom — Not Voting
John — Not Voting
A. — Not Voting
Perez — Not Voting
Cook — Not Voting
Adams — Yea
Anderson — Nay
Bass — Yea
Block — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Ma — Yea
Nava — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Smyth — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Villines — Yea
Emmerson — Yea
Evans — Yea
DeVore — Not Voting
Fuller — Yea
Garrick — Not Voting
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Not Voting
Bill Berryhill — Not Voting
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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Do pass as amended.

Passed 18 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 17000
Democratic 1000
Total 18000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (18)
Member Party Vote
Bradford — Yea
Conway — Yea
Coto — Yea
Hall — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Miller — Yea
Nava — Yea
Norby — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Charles — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Davis — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 2435 do?
(1) Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of psychologists, professional clinical counselors, clinical social workers, and marriage and family therapists. Existing law requires a person applying for licensure in these professions to have completed specified coursework or training in child abuse assessment and reporting from certain types of institutions. This bill would encourage the Board of Psychology and the Board of Behavioral Sciences to include in that training elder and dependent adult abuse assessment and reporting, and would also apply that training and coursework requirement to professional clinical counselors. (2) Existing law, with respect to psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, and licensed professional clinical counselors, requires a licensee to complete, as a condition of licensure and relicensure, specified coursework in aging. This bill, on and after January 1, 2012, would expand the required coursework to additionally cover elder and dependent adult abuse assessment and reporting. (3) Existing law, with respect to marriage and family therapists, requires an applicant for licensure or registration to possess a doctoral or master's degree in various disciplines, including marriage, family, and child counseling, relative to applicants who begin graduate study before August 1, 2012, and complete that study on or before December 31, 2018. This bill would authorize the requisite coursework related to developmental issues and life events to include coursework in abuse and neglect of older and dependent adults. (4) Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family therapist under (3) to complete a minimum of 10 contact hours of coursework in aging and long-term care, which may include the biological, social, and psychological aspects of aging. This bill, on and after January 1, 2012, would require the coursework to include instruction on the assessment and reporting of elder and dependent adult abuse and neglect and associated treatment. (5) Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a marriage and family counselor, prior to applying for a licensure examination, to complete certain hours of experience. This bill would encourage those hours of experience to include working with elders and dependent adults. (6) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 4980.43 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 1489, to be operative if SB 1489 and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2011, and this bill is enacted last.
Who sponsors AB 2435?
AB 2435 is sponsored by Lowenthal, Josh (Democratic) and Ma.
What is the current status of AB 2435?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 19, 2010. Enacted.
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