An excerpt from a recent email by Sarah Kremer, ATR-BC, Chair of AATA Governmental Affairs Committee:
CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR COUNSELOR LICENSURE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
September 11, 2009
California’s State Legislature has passed the counselor licensure bill!
SB788 (Wyland-Steinberg) passed on the Assembly Floor on September 8th with a vote of 70-5 and on the Senate Floor on September 10th with a vote of 26-1.
Next, the bill will go to the Governor’s Desk for his signature. The Governor’s desk is the last step in this seven-year effort by counselors to attain licensure in California. If all goes well, a counselor licensure bill will go into effect on January 1, 2010. Grandparenting and reciprocity applications would become available on Janaury 1, 2011.