Noreen Evans
- Democratic
Author
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, 2014, requires the board to charge an annual membership fee for active members of up to $315 for 2013. Existing law requires the board to charge an annual membership fee for inactive members of up to $75. Existing law requires the State Bar, until January 1, 2014, to allocate $20 of those fees 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. This bill would, until January 1, 2015, require the board to charge the annual membership fee for active members described above. The bill would require 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. The bill would require 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 the purposes described above. Existing law generally authorizes the Controller to offset any amount due a state agency from a person or entity against any amount owing the person or entity by any state agency, as specified, and requires the Controller, in conjunction with the Franchise Tax Board, to develop a program to provide for multiple offsets to various participating state agencies, as specified. This bill would authorize and direct the State Bar of California to participate as a state agency in the program described above for the collection of specified fines, penalties, assessments, costs, or reimbursements owed to the State Bar of California.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 681, Statutes of 2013.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2422.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 3222.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (August 30).
Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (August 15).
Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 2550.)
Hearing postponed by committee.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 947.) Ordered to the Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 852.) (May 7).
Set for hearing May 7.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB345 | HTML |
| 02/20/13 - Introduced | |
| 08/21/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/03/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/18/13 - Enrolled | |
| 10/09/13 - Chaptered |
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