Bill Text: CA AB2746 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Attorneys: annual membership fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 429, Statutes of 2014. [AB2746 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2746-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2746	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 12, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Judiciary (Assembly Members Wieckowski
(Chair), Alejo, Chau, Dickinson, Garcia, Muratsuchi, and Stone)

                        MARCH 4, 2014

   An act to amend  Section   Sections 
6140  and 6140.03  of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to attorneys.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2746, as amended, Committee on Judiciary. Attorneys: annual
membership fees.
   Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and
regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public
corporation. The State Bar is governed by a board of trustees.
Existing law, until January 1, 2015, requires the board to charge an
annual membership fee for active members of up to $315 for 2014. 
Existing law requires the board to charge an annual membership fee
for inactive members of up to $75. 
   This bill would, until January 1, 2016, require the board to
charge the annual membership fee for active members described above
for 2015. 
   Existing law requires the board to increase each of the annual
membership fees described above by an additional $30, to be allocated
only to support nonprofit organizations that provide free legal
services to persons of limited means, except to the extent that a
member elects not to support those activities. Existing law requires
that the invoice provided to members for payment of the annual
membership fee provide each member the option of deducting $30 from
the annual membership fee if the member elects not to have this
amount allocated for these purposes.  
   This bill would increase that optional, additional amount to $38.

   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 6140 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   6140.  (a) The board shall fix the annual membership fee for
active members for 2015 at a sum not exceeding three hundred fifteen
dollars ($315).
   (b) The annual membership fee for active members is payable on or
before the first day of February of each year. If the board finds it
appropriate and feasible, it may provide by rule for payment of fees
on an installment basis with interest, by credit card, or other
means, and may charge members choosing any alternative method of
payment an additional fee to defray costs incurred by that election.
   (c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2016, and, as of that date, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends
that date.
   SEC. 2.    Section 6140.03 of the   Business
and Professions Code   is amended to read: 
   6140.03.  (a) The board shall increase each of the annual
membership fees fixed by Sections 6140 and 6141 by an additional
 thirty dollars ($30),   thirty-eight dollars
($38),  to be allocated only for the purposes established
pursuant to Section 6033, except to the extent that a member elects
not to support those activities.
   (b) The invoice provided to members for payment of the annual
membership fee shall provide each member the option of deducting
 thirty dollars ($30)   thirty-eight dollars
($38)  from the annual membership fee if the member elects not
to have this amount allocated for the purposes established pursuant
to Section 6033.