California Business and Professions Code

§ 4651

BPC § 4651 Effective Jan 1, 2020Div. 2 · Ch. 10.7

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares the following:

(a)Existing national certification of music therapists requires the therapist to have graduated with a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent, or higher, from a music therapy degree program approved by the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), successful completion of a minimum of 1,200 hours of supervised clinical work through preinternship training at an approved degree program, and internship training through approved national roster or university affiliated internship programs, or an equivalent.

(b)Upon successful completion of the AMTA academic and clinical training requirements or its international equivalent, an individual is eligible to sit for the national board certification exam administered by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT), an independent, nonprofit corporation fully accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 167, Sec. 1. (AB 1540) Effective January 1, 2020.