republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2167.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clinical social workers: examination requirements."
description: "Existing law, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of social workers by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires the board to issue a license to each applicant meeting specified requirements who successfully passes a board administered standard written or oral examination or both examinations and existing law also provides for a clinical vignette written examination for these applicants. Under existing law, the fee for the standard written examination is $150 and the fee for the clinical vignette written examination is $100."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2167"
citation: "California AB 2167 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Clinical social workers: examination requirements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nava"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2010-02-18"
last_action: "2010-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c66efd1-2951-4927-9977-233702d4c62f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2167"
source_hash: "569a6817041bcb596f912148c81971ec45cadf7f904c414af7275bc5b1b159fb"
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 2167 (20092010) — Clinical social workers: examination requirements.

Existing law, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of social workers by the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Existing law requires the board to issue a license to each applicant meeting specified requirements who successfully passes a board administered standard written or oral examination or both examinations and existing law also provides for a clinical vignette written examination for these applicants. Under existing law, the fee for the standard written examination is $150 and the fee for the clinical vignette written examination is $100.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2167&version=20090AB216799INT)
2. **04/14/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2167&version=20090AB216798AMD)
3. **08/12/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2167&version=20090AB216797AMD)
4. **09/29/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2167&version=20090AB216795CHP)
5. **AB2167** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2167)
6. **08/24/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2167&version=20090AB216796ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2167 NAVA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2167 NAVA Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2167 Nava By Negrete McLeod — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nava — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2010-03-04** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-13** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 13). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-14** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-17** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 1. Page 5189.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-27** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2010-06-29** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-12** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 4601.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-19** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6373.)
- **2010-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 6386.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2010-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 546, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6c66efd1-2951-4927-9977-233702d4c62f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).