BILL NUMBER: AB 2696	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gonzalez

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 6065 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to attorneys.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2696, as introduced, Gonzalez. Attorneys.
   Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and
regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public
corporation. The act requires a person who wishes to practice law in
this state to, among other things, pass the general bar examination
or the Attorneys' Examination given by the examining committee.
   Existing law provides that any unsuccessful applicant for
admission to practice, after he or she has taken any examination and
within 4 months after the results have been declared, has the right
to inspect his or her examination papers and the grading of those
papers, as specified. Existing law also provides that the applicant
has the right to inspect the grading of the papers whether a record
of the grade is marked upon the examination or otherwise.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this
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 6065 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   6065.  (a)  (1)     Any
  An  unsuccessful applicant for admission to
practice, after he or she has taken any examination and within four
months after the results  thereof  have been
declared, has the right to inspect his or her examination papers at
the office of the examining committee located nearest to the place at
which the applicant took the examination. 
   (2) 
    (b)  The applicant also has the right to inspect the
grading of the papers whether  the  a 
record  thereof   of the grade  is marked
upon the examination or otherwise. 
   (b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2009.