BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 2747 Page 1 Date of Hearing: May 21, 2014 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Mike Gatto, Chair AB 2747 (Committee on Judiciary) - As Amended: May 14, 2014 Policy Committee: JudiciaryVote:7-0 Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: Yes Reimbursable: No SUMMARY This bill makes numerous technical and clarifying changes to the state's civil law statutes, including: 1)Exempting a probate referee from paying a filing fee for a request for special notice when acting in his or her official capacity. 2)Deleting overly broad reporting requirements assigned to the Judicial Council pursuant to the study established by AB 900 (2011), instead limiting the scope of the report to the effects of AB 900 on the administration of justice. 3)Clarifying that the court's decision to grant a fee waiver in a case involving a conservatorship or guardianship should be based on the financial resources of the proposed conservatee or ward. FISCAL EFFECT Negligible fiscal impact. COMMENTS Purpose . This bill is the Assembly Judiciary Committee's omnibus civil law bill. This bill incorporates over a dozen different proposals submitted by various groups-including the Judicial Council, the Secretary of State, the State Controller's Office, and the California Law Revision Commission-to make technical, clarifying, or other modest changes to civil law. Analysis Prepared by : Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916) 319-2081 AB 2747 Page 2