CA SB1134

Removes the term "duty to warn" from Civil Code Section 43.92, replacing it with "duty to protect" for psychotherapists regarding patients' threatened violent behavior.

Psychotherapists have no monetary liability or cause of action for failing to protect from a patient's violent behavior unless the patient has communicated a serious threat of physical violence against a reasonably identifiable victim.

Psychotherapists fulfill their duty to protect by making reasonable efforts to communicate the threat to the victim(s) and to a law enforcement agency.

Legislature declares this is a name change only and not a substantive change to existing law or psychotherapist duties.

Directs courts to interpret the amended section consistently with how it was interpreted prior to January 1, 2013.