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Votes at a glance: May 9 California Board of Behavioral Sciences meeting
Summary
Summary of formal votes taken May 9, 2025 by the Board of Behavioral Sciences on rulemaking and legislative positions.
At its May 9 meeting the California Board of Behavioral Sciences took formal votes on rulemaking items and a set of legislative measures. The board recorded the following outcomes:
- Disciplinary guidelines rulemaking (agenda item 22): Approved staff responses to public comments and authorized completion of the final rulemaking package and filing with the Office of Administrative Law (vote recorded as unanimous among members present).
- Fee reduction rulemaking (agenda item 23): Approved initiation of rulemaking to reduce many license, renewal, exam and application fees by 50% from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2030. Motion carried 7 yes, 2 no.
- Assembly Bill 427 (Social Work Compact) (agenda item 24): Board voted to oppose the bill as drafted and directed staff to engage with the author and the compact commission to outline California's concerns. Motion carried (8 yes, 0 no, 1 abstain).
- Assembly Bill 489 (AI deceptive terms in health care) (agenda item 25): Board voted to support AB 489 and urged staff to work with the author on possible language refinements. Motion carried unanimously among members present.
- Assembly Bill 742 (prioritization for descendants of slavery) (agenda item 26): Board voted to support AB 742 (motion carried unanimously among members present).
- Senate Bill 470 (Bagley-Keene teleconferencing technical extensions) (agenda item 27): Board voted to support extending teleconferencing options for state bodies through 2030 (motion carried unanimously among members present).
- Senate Bill 497 (legally protected health care activity / gender-affirming care protections) (agenda item 28): Board voted to support SB 497 (motion carried; one abstention recorded).
- Senate Bill 579 (mental health and AI working group) (agenda item 29): Board endorsed SB 579 creating a state-led work group to examine AI in mental-health treatment (motion carried unanimously among members present).
- Senate Bill 641 (emergency waiver authority) (agenda item 30): Board took a watch position and directed staff to monitor; no formal vote to adopt a position was taken at the meeting.
- Senate Bill 775 (sunset bill and board-sponsored amendments) (agenda item 31): Board supported author's amendments extending the board's sunset date to Jan. 1, 2030 and requested minor drafting fixes; motion carried.
