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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 556	California AB 556 (20152016)	bill	Charitable trusts: regulation and enforcement.	enacted	Irwin	7	26	7	2015-02-23	2015-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/d28379ad-2ca6-4d0a-b892-36e2814ad65a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB556	d872bd05186930f78382d0ef1a52daf635c53f06d4f5561c3919beae8000efb5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 03/19/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/21/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB556 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/d28379ad-2ca6-4d0a-b892-36e2814ad65a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).