Documentary record · LEGISLATIVE PASSAGE

SB 903 (AI and the practice of therapy) completes legislative passage: Senate concurrence 40–0, ordered to enrolling

LEGISLATIVE PASSAGE COMPLETE — ENGROSSING/ENROLLING

Event date

August 31, 2026

Jurisdiction

California

Issuing body

California Senate

Action type

LEGISLATIVE PASSAGE

Lifecycle state

LEGISLATIVE PASSAGE COMPLETE — ENGROSSING/ENROLLING

Verification date

1 September 2026

Completes legislative action and moves the measure to engrossing and enrolling. Nothing is prohibited or required today.

What this establishes

  • The Senate concurred in Assembly amendments 40–0 on 31 August.
  • The measure was ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

What this does not establish

  • That the bill has been presented to the Governor. Enrolling and presentment are distinct recorded states.
  • That any prohibition on AI systems providing or advertising therapy is operative.
  • The operative definitions, which will be those of the enrolled text.

Why it matters

The bill reaches the boundary question underneath all clinical-AI regulation: at what point does a software tool begin performing a regulated healing-art function? If the answer is that providing therapy is the regulated act regardless of who or what performs it, this is professional-practice regulation. If the answer depends on how the tool is marketed, it is closer to product regulation. The distinction determines which body enforces it.

Primary source

Register: data/events.json · record id sb903-senate-concurrence-2026-08-31.