California 2019-2020 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 786 — Healing arts.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 456, Statutes of 2019.

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

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 11, 2019. Enacted.

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Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

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High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 6 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

(1) Existing law requires the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and the Physician Assistant Board to disclose to an inquiring member of the public specified information regarding any enforcement action taken against a licensee. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. (2) Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of dental hygienists by the Dental Hygiene Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs, and specifies that, for purposes of the dental hygiene provisions, "hygiene board" means the Dental Hygiene Board of California. This bill, in the provisions regulating dental hygienists, would replace all of the references to "hygiene board" with "dental hygiene board." (3) Existing law authorizes the Medical Board of California to make loans to medical students at a prescribed interest rate in accordance with specified conditions, which are repayable to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California. This bill would repeal those provisions. (4) Existing law authorizes the Medical Board of California to award loans to licensed physicians and surgeons who agree to establish a medical practice in an area deficient in primary care services, and requires those loans to be repayable to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California. This bill would repeal those provisions. (5) Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists and licensed professional clinical counselors, respectively, by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure or regulation as a marriage and family therapist to meet specified educational requirements, including, for specified applicants, possessing a doctoral or master's degree that provides a practicum that involves direct client contact in, among others, prognosis, and instruction in the prognosis of mental disorders, and a supervised practicum in applied psychotherapeutic prognosis. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a professional clinical counselor to meet specified educational requirements, including possessing a degree that includes a supervised practicum or field study experience that involves direct client contact in a clinical setting for a range of professional clinical counseling experiences, including prognosis. This bill would, under both acts, replace the requirement for prognosis with a requirement for treatment planning, as described above. (6) Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, the Educational Psychologist Practice Act, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, requires an applicant for licensure or regulation under those acts to pass specified board-administered examinations. Those acts prohibit the board from delaying informing a candidate for licensure of the results of the written examination solely upon the receipt of a complaint alleging acts or conduct that would constitute grounds to deny licensure. The Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act and the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act authorize the board to withhold the results of a specified clinical examination if the applicant had passed a law and ethics examination but was under the investigation of the board. This bill would revise those acts to eliminate the prohibitions on the board from delaying informing a candidate for licensure of the results of the written examination solely upon the receipt of a complaint alleging acts or conduct that would constitute grounds to deny licensure. The bill would also revise the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act and the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act to remove the authorization for the board to withhold the results of a specified clinical examination as described above. (7) Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, as a condition of licensure or registration, requires a person to possess a doctoral or master's degree that meets specified requirements. The bill would add to the list of degrees that qualify a person for licensure or registration under the act to include a degree in clinical mental health counseling with an emphasis in either marriage, family, and child counseling or marriage and family therapy. This bill would require that the doctoral or master's degree program that qualifies for licensure or registration be a single, integrated program. (8) Existing law, the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, as a condition of licensure, requires a person to possess a master's or doctoral degree that is counseling or psychotherapy in content and prescribes requirements for the degree. This bill would require that the degree be a single, integrated program. (9) Existing provisions of the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act authorize trainees, associates, or applicants for licensure to only perform services at the places where their employer regularly conducts business and services. This bill would instead authorize those persons to only perform services at the places where their employer permits business to be conducted. (10) This bill would repeal obsolete provisions and would make other conforming and nonsubstantive changes. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 2234 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 425 to be operative only if this bill and SB 425 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 4980.81 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 679 to be operative only if this bill and SB 679 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 456, Statutes of 2019.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2844.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3255.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read third time and amended.

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  10. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 14).

  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  12. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.

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

  14. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  15. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1005.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  16. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

  17. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.

  18. Set for hearing May 6.

  19. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 770.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  20. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.

  21. Set for hearing April 22.

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

  23. From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 11.

  24. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Professions and Economic Development Committee on Business · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Unfinished Business SB786 B.P.&E.D. (Glazer) Concurrence

Passed 40 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 27000
Democratic 10000
Republican 3000
Total 40000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Rubio — Yea
Monning — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Beall — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Hill — Yea
Roth — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Allen — Yea
Borgeas — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bates — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Chang — Yea
Pan — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Gonzalez, Lena A. Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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SB 786 B., P. & E.D. Senate Third Reading By LOW

Passed 79 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 52000
Democratic 22000
Republican 5000
Total 79000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Mathis — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Diep — Yea
Chau — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Low — Yea
Burke — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Smith — Yea
Cunningham — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Voepel — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Gray — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Kamlager-Dove — Yea
Medina — Yea
Chu — Yea
Ting — Yea
McCarty — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Salas — Yea
Brough — Yea
Gloria — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Holden — Yea
Daly — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Weber — Yea
Fong — Yea
Kiley — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Levine — Yea
Wood — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Luz Rivas — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Bauer-Kahan, Rebecca Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Boerner, Tasha Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Petrie-Norris, Cottie Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Ramos, James C. Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea
Rubio, Blanca E. Democratic Yea
Wicks, Buffy Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Yea
Choi, Steven S. Republican Yea
Flora, Heath Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

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Do pass.

Passed 18 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 5000
Unaffiliated 13000
Total 18000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (18)
Member Party Vote
Bloom — Yea
Fong — Yea
Brough — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea
Diep — Yea
Chau — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Wendy Carrillo — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gabriel, Jesse Democratic Yea
Petrie-Norris, Cottie Democratic Yea
Rivas, Robert Democratic Yea

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Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

Passed 19 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 14000
Democratic 4000
Republican 1000
Total 19000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (19)
Member Party Vote
Fong — Yea
Brough — Yea
Cunningham — Yea
Gloria — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Holden — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Mullin — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Low — Yea
Medina — Yea
Ting — Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Yea

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Consent Calendar SB786 B.P.&E.D.

Passed 38 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 27000
Democratic 9000
Republican 2000
Total 38000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (38)
Member Party Vote
Rubio — Yea
Monning — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Beall — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Hill — Yea
Roth — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Allen — Yea
Borgeas — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Bates — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Chang — Yea
Pan — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Archuleta, Bob Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Durazo, Maria Elena Democratic Yea
Hurtado, Melissa Democratic Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Umberg, Thomas J. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 786 do?
(1) Existing law requires the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, and the Physician Assistant Board to disclose to an inquiring member of the public specified information regarding any enforcement action taken against a licensee. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. (2) Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of dental hygienists by the Dental Hygiene Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs, and specifies that, for purposes of the dental hygiene provisions, "hygiene board" means the Dental Hygiene Board of California. This bill, in the provisions regulating dental hygienists, would replace all of the references to "hygiene board" with "dental hygiene board." (3) Existing law authorizes the Medical Board of California to make loans to medical students at a prescribed interest rate in accordance with specified conditions, which are repayable to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California. This bill would repeal those provisions. (4) Existing law authorizes the Medical Board of California to award loans to licensed physicians and surgeons who agree to establish a medical practice in an area deficient in primary care services, and requires those loans to be repayable to the Contingent Fund of the Medical Board of California. This bill would repeal those provisions. (5) Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of marriage and family therapists and licensed professional clinical counselors, respectively, by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure or regulation as a marriage and family therapist to meet specified educational requirements, including, for specified applicants, possessing a doctoral or master's degree that provides a practicum that involves direct client contact in, among others, prognosis, and instruction in the prognosis of mental disorders, and a supervised practicum in applied psychotherapeutic prognosis. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a professional clinical counselor to meet specified educational requirements, including possessing a degree that includes a supervised practicum or field study experience that involves direct client contact in a clinical setting for a range of professional clinical counseling experiences, including prognosis. This bill would, under both acts, replace the requirement for prognosis with a requirement for treatment planning, as described above. (6) Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, the Educational Psychologist Practice Act, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, requires an applicant for licensure or regulation under those acts to pass specified board-administered examinations. Those acts prohibit the board from delaying informing a candidate for licensure of the results of the written examination solely upon the receipt of a complaint alleging acts or conduct that would constitute grounds to deny licensure. The Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act and the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act authorize the board to withhold the results of a specified clinical examination if the applicant had passed a law and ethics examination but was under the investigation of the board. This bill would revise those acts to eliminate the prohibitions on the board from delaying informing a candidate for licensure of the results of the written examination solely upon the receipt of a complaint alleging acts or conduct that would constitute grounds to deny licensure. The bill would also revise the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act and the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act to remove the authorization for the board to withhold the results of a specified clinical examination as described above. (7) Existing law, the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, as a condition of licensure or registration, requires a person to possess a doctoral or master's degree that meets specified requirements. The bill would add to the list of degrees that qualify a person for licensure or registration under the act to include a degree in clinical mental health counseling with an emphasis in either marriage, family, and child counseling or marriage and family therapy. This bill would require that the doctoral or master's degree program that qualifies for licensure or registration be a single, integrated program. (8) Existing law, the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act, as a condition of licensure, requires a person to possess a master's or doctoral degree that is counseling or psychotherapy in content and prescribes requirements for the degree. This bill would require that the degree be a single, integrated program. (9) Existing provisions of the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, and the Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor Act authorize trainees, associates, or applicants for licensure to only perform services at the places where their employer regularly conducts business and services. This bill would instead authorize those persons to only perform services at the places where their employer permits business to be conducted. (10) This bill would repeal obsolete provisions and would make other conforming and nonsubstantive changes. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 2234 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 425 to be operative only if this bill and SB 425 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 4980.81 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 679 to be operative only if this bill and SB 679 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Who sponsors SB 786?
SB 786 is sponsored by Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development.
What is the current status of SB 786?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced March 11, 2019. Enacted.
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