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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Charitable trusts: regulation and enforcement."
+description: "Existing law requires an individual or entity who for compensation solicits funds or property for charitable purposes to disclose that the solicitation is being conducted by a commercial fundraiser for a charitable purpose and the registered name of the commercial fundraiser."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 556"
+citation: "California AB 556 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Charitable trusts: regulation and enforcement."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Irwin"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2015-02-23"
+last_action: "2015-09-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d28379ad-2ca6-4d0a-b892-36e2814ad65a"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB556"
+source_hash: "d872bd05186930f78382d0ef1a52daf635c53f06d4f5561c3919beae8000efb5"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 556 (20152016) — Charitable trusts: regulation and enforcement.
+
+Existing law requires an individual or entity who for compensation solicits funds or property for charitable purposes to disclose that the solicitation is being conducted by a commercial fundraiser for a charitable purpose and the registered name of the commercial fundraiser.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/23/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB556&version=20150AB55699INT)
+2. **03/19/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB556&version=20150AB55698AMD)
+3. **04/07/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB556&version=20150AB55697AMD)
+4. **06/19/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB556&version=20150AB55696AMD)
+5. **09/21/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB556&version=20150AB55694CHP)
+6. **AB556** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB556)
+7. **08/31/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB556&version=20150AB55695ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 556 IRWIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 556 IRWIN Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Irwin — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
+- **2015-03-05** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2015-04-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1448.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2015-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-07-13** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
+- **2015-07-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1986.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2015-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2601.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2015-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2015-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 299, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d28379ad-2ca6-4d0a-b892-36e2814ad65a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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