republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2296.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2296	California AB 2296 (20172018)	bill	Licensed professional clinical counselors: licensed clinical social workers.	enacted	Waldron	9	31	8	2018-02-13	2018-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/71bdff23-f0bf-4062-a080-8114e34ac6b0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2296	b2e0c4de55073734bc02a0fd7f7bdadcfdc19bc5c2c7b40194b568136df84428	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 03/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/26/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/13/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/14/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2296 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/71bdff23-f0bf-4062-a080-8114e34ac6b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).