Bill Text: CA AB2645 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2645 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Attorneys: rules of professional conduct.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-27 - Read first time. [AB2645 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2645-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2645	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wagner

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 6077 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to attorneys.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2645, as introduced, Wagner. Attorneys: rules of professional
conduct.
   Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and
regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California. The State Bar
is governed by the board of trustees of the State Bar. Under
existing law, rules of professional conduct adopted by the board of
trustees are binding upon all members of the State Bar and the board
has power to discipline members for a willful breach of those rules.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 6077 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   6077.  The rules of professional conduct adopted by the board,
when approved by the Supreme Court, are binding upon all members of
the State Bar.
   For a  wilful   willful  breach of any
of these rules, the board has power to discipline members of the
State Bar by reproval, public or private, or to recommend to the
Supreme Court the suspension from practice for a period not exceeding
three years of members of the State Bar.