Healing arts: Board of Behavioral Sciences: Board of Psychology: licensees.

Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of medicine by the Medical Board of California and requires a health care provider initiating the use of telehealth to inform the patient, before the delivery of health care via telehealth, about the use of telehealth and obtain verbal or written consent from the patient for the use of telehealth as an acceptable mode of delivering health care services and public health. The act defines "health care provider" to include, among others, an associate marriage and family therapist or marriage and family therapist trainee, as specified.