BILL NUMBER: AB 1646	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gallagher

                        JANUARY 12, 2016

   An act to amend Section  15001   6402.2 
of the  Probate   Business and Professions
 Code, relating to  trusts.   professions.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1646, as amended, Gallagher.  Trust proceedings.
  Legal assistants: continuing education.  
   Existing law defines and regulates the activities of legal
document assistants and unlawful detainer assistants, as those terms
are defined. Existing law requires a legal document assistant or
unlawful detainer assistant to be registered in the county in which
his or her principal place of business is located and in which he or
she maintains a branch office. Existing law requires that a
certificate of registration expire after 2 years, as specified.
Existing law requires a registrant, whether a legal document
assistant or an unlawful detainer assistant, to complete 15 hours of
continuing legal education courses, as specified, as a condition of
registration renewal.  
   This bill would delete this continuing legal education requirement
for an unlawful detainer assistant.  
   The Trust Law governs the regulation of trusts and proceedings
concerning trusts and specifies that its provisions apply to all
proceedings concerning trusts commenced on or after July 1, 1987. The
law also applies to proceedings concerning trusts commenced before
July 1, 1987, except under specified circumstances. 

   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 6402.2 of the  
Business and Professions Code   is amended to read: 
   6402.2.  To be eligible to renew registration under this chapter,
 the registrant   a legal doc   ument
assistant  shall complete 15 hours of continuing legal education
courses, which meet the requirements of Section 6070, during the
two-year period preceding renewal. 
  SECTION 1.    Section 15001 of the Probate Code is
amended to read:
   15001.  Except as otherwise provided by statute:
   (a) This division applies to all trusts regardless of whether they
were created before, on, or after July 1, 1987.
   (b) This division applies to all proceedings concerning trusts
that are commenced on or after July 1, 1987.
   (c) This division applies to all proceedings concerning trusts
commenced before July 1, 1987, unless, in the opinion of the court,
application of a particular provision of this division would
substantially interfere with the effective conduct of the proceedings
or the rights of the parties and other interested persons, in which
case the particular provision of this division does not apply and
prior law applies.