---
type: "Bill"
title: "Licensed professional clinical counselors: licensed clinical social workers."
description: "(1) The Psychology Licensing Law provides for the licensure and regulation of psychologists by the Board of Psychology and makes a violation of its provisions a crime. This law does not prevent qualified members of specified recognized professional groups from doing work of a psychological nature consistent with the law, as provided. This law describes a psychological corporation as a corporation that is authorized to render professional services if the corporation and its shareholders, officers, directors, and employees rendering professional services are specified healing arts licensees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2296"
citation: "California AB 2296 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Licensed professional clinical counselors: licensed clinical social workers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldron"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-02-13"
last_action: "2018-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71bdff23-f0bf-4062-a080-8114e34ac6b0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296"
source_hash: "b2e0c4de55073734bc02a0fd7f7bdadcfdc19bc5c2c7b40194b568136df84428"
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 2296 (20172018) — Licensed professional clinical counselors: licensed clinical social workers.

(1) The Psychology Licensing Law provides for the licensure and regulation of psychologists by the Board of Psychology and makes a violation of its provisions a crime. This law does not prevent qualified members of specified recognized professional groups from doing work of a psychological nature consistent with the law, as provided. This law describes a psychological corporation as a corporation that is authorized to render professional services if the corporation and its shareholders, officers, directors, and employees rendering professional services are specified healing arts licensees.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/13/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296&version=20170AB229699INT)
2. **03/23/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296&version=20170AB229698AMD)
3. **04/10/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296&version=20170AB229697AMD)
4. **04/26/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296&version=20170AB229696AMD)
5. **06/13/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296&version=20170AB229695AMD)
6. **08/15/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296&version=20170AB229694AMD)
7. **09/14/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296&version=20170AB229692CHP)
8. **AB2296** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296)
9. **08/29/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296&version=20170AB229693ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2296 Waldron By Wilk — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2296 WALDRON Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2296 WALDRON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Waldron — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2018-03-22** Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-26** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-30** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5215.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-09** From Consent Calendar.
- **2018-08-09** Ordered to third reading.
- **2018-08-15** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5515.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6620.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 389, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71bdff23-f0bf-4062-a080-8114e34ac6b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).