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DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 14 - Social Workers
ARTICLE 2 - Application of Chapter
Section 4993.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 4993 (2025)
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4993. (a) A licensed clinical social worker shall retain a client’s or patient’s health service records for a minimum of seven years from the date therapy is terminated. If the client or patient is a minor, the client’s or patient’s health service records shall be retained for a minimum of seven years from the date the client or patient reaches 18 years of age. Health service records may be retained in either a written or an electronic format.
(b) This section shall apply only to the records of a client or patient whose therapy is terminated on or after January 1, 2015.
(Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 312, Sec. 3. (SB 578) Effective January 1, 2015.)
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