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Committee backs statutory changes to retired‑license rules, eases process for recently expired licenses
Summary
The Policy and Advocacy Committee approved a recommendation to pursue statutory amendments that would: allow licenses expired within the past three years to be placed into retired status, clarify restoration requirements and continuing‑education windows, and restrict a retired license to a single one‑time reactivation attempt.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences Policy and Advocacy Committee voted Jan. 24 to direct staff to prepare statutory amendments clarifying retired‑license requirements and to bring the legislative proposal back to the board.
Roseanne Helms, legislative manager, reviewed the proposed amendments and said the retired license — created in 2011 — is currently available only to licensees with a current active or inactive license and that many callers ask to retire licenses they have already allowed to expire. "The proposal, as long as the license is expired within the past 3 years ... we would permit a license…
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