Licenses in this chapter expire within 24 months, and the board sets the expiration date. To renew a license before it expires, license holders must fill out a form, pay a fee, confirm they've met continuing education requirements, and report any recent misdemeanors, felonies, or disciplinary actions.

This section is about renewing the registration for associate marriage and family therapists. Your registration lasts for one year. To renew, make sure before it expires you fill out a form, pay a fee, take a law and ethics exam, and report any criminal convictions or disciplinary actions. You also need to confirm you've completed your continuing education. If your registration expires, you can still renew it by doing all these steps. You can renew up to five times, but after six years, you'll need a new registration number, and you can't work in private practice with that new number.

If you've let your license expire, you have up to three years to renew it by meeting certain requirements and paying any late fees.

If you have a suspended license, you can still renew it when it expires, but you can't use it to do the licensed activity until the suspension is lifted. Also, you're not allowed to break any rules set by the suspension order.

If your professional license is revoked, it can still expire like normal, but you can't renew it. If you want to get it back after it expires, you have to pay a fee similar to the original renewal fee, plus any late fees from when it was first revoked.

If your professional license in California expires and you don't renew it within three years, you can't just renew it or get it back. Instead, you'll need to apply for a completely new license. To do that, you must ensure there's no reason that would normally stop you from having a license, fill out a new application, pay the necessary fees, pass the current examination, and complete fingerprinting requirements.

Every month, the board must tell the Controller how much money it made and where it came from. Then, all that money goes into the State Treasury and is added to the Behavioral Sciences Fund.

This law outlines the various fees associated with becoming and maintaining licensure as a marriage and family therapist. It includes application fees, renewal fees, examination fees, and fees for other services like replacing documents and issuing certificates of good standing. The board can change these fees up to certain maximum limits. There's a penalty fee if a license renewal is late. Fees are set based on the actual costs involved in exams and other administrative tasks, and they apply from January 1, 2021.

If you're a licensed marriage and family therapist in California, you can ask to put your license on hold or 'inactive.' While it's inactive, you can't practice, but you only pay half the license renewal fee and skip continuing education. When you're ready to start practicing again, you can reactivate it. Depending on how close you are to your renewal date, you'll need to pay the rest of the fee and complete either 18 or 36 hours of education.

If you have a professional license or registration and you change your name, you need to tell the board in writing within 30 days of getting a new government ID showing your new name. You must provide both your old and new names and sign the notification under penalty of perjury. You also need to include a copy of your new government ID and a legal document that confirms your name change, like a marriage certificate or court order.

If you're a marriage and family therapist in California, you can get a retired license if your current license isn't under any disciplinary actions. This retired license means you can't practice but don't have to renew it. If you want to go back to being active, and it's been less than three years since you retired, you need to have a clean record, pay a fee, complete some continuing education, and get fingerprinted. If it's been less than a year, you need 18 hours of continuing education; if it's been one year or more, then you need 36 hours. If it's been three years or more, you need to pay the fee, take exams, and provide fingerprints.

If you fail the clinical exam after January 1, 2016, you have one year from when you're notified of the failure to retake it by just paying the exam fee, without reapplying. After that year, you need to submit a new application, meet current requirements, and pay all fees to retake the exam.

This law states that when renewing a license every two years, an additional $20 fee will be collected. This extra fee is used specially to support the Mental Health Practitioner Education Fund. This requirement has been in effect since July 1, 2018.