BILL NUMBER: AB 1103	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Papan

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to amend Sections 6301 and 6301.5 of the Business and
Professions Code, relating to law library boards of trustees.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1103, as amended, Papan.  Law library boards of trustees.
   Existing law establishes in each county a board of law library
trustees for the purpose of governing the county law library.
Existing law provides for the membership of those boards, which is
limited to superior and municipal court judges, and members of the
bar, and members of the board of supervisors.
   This bill would revise and recast these provisions and, among
other things, authorize the appointment of persons who are residents
of the county who are not members of the above-specified groups.
   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 6301 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   6301.  (a) Except as otherwise provided by statute, a board of law
library trustees is constituted as follows:
   (1) In a county where there are no more than three judges of the
superior court, each of those judges is ex officio a trustee.  The
judges may at their option select only one of their number to serve
as a trustee, and in that event they shall appoint two additional
trustees who are residents of the county or members of the State Bar.

   (2) In a county where there are more than three judges of the
superior court, the judges of that court shall elect  at
least four, and no more than   either four or  five
  of their number to serve as trustees.
   (3) Any judge of the superior court who is an ex officio or
elected member may at the judge's option designate a resident of the
county or a member of the State Bar to act for the judge as trustee.

   (4) The chair of the board of supervisors is ex officio a trustee,
but the board of supervisors at the request of the chair may appoint
a member of the State Bar, any other member of the board of
supervisors of the county, or a resident of the county to serve as
trustee in place of the chair.  The appointment of the person
selected in place of the chair of the board of supervisors shall
expire when a new chair of the board of supervisors is selected, and
that appointment shall not be subject to the provisions of Section
6302.
   (5) The board of supervisors shall appoint as many additional
trustees, who are members of the State Bar, as may be necessary to
constitute a board of at least six and not more than seven members.
   (b) No more than two law library trustees may be residents of the
county who are not judges of the county, members of the State Bar, or
members of the board of supervisors of the county.
  SEC. 2.  Section 6301.5 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   6301.5.  In any county where there are  three or fewer
  no more than three  judges of the superior court,
the board of supervisors, with the concurrence of the judges of the
superior court, may reduce the number of law library trustees to not
less than three members.