SB 134, as introduced, Hertzberg. State Bar of California: voluntary fee collection.
Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public corporation. Existing law authorizes the State Bar to collect annual membership dues and voluntary fees, as specified. Existing law creates the Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Program, which is administered by the Student Aid Commission, to provide loan repayment assistance for licensed attorneys who practice or agree to practice in public interest areas of the law in California.
This bill would expressly authorize the State Bar to collect voluntary fees on behalf of, and for the purpose of funding, the Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment Program.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 6032 of the Business and Professions
2Code is amended to read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insertNotwithstanding any other provision of law, the
2State Bar is expressly authorized to collect, in conjunction with
3the State Bar’s collection of its annual membership dues, voluntary
4fees on behalfbegin delete ofend deletebegin insert of,end insert and for the purpose ofbegin delete fundingend deletebegin insert funding,end insert the
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9(b) Notwithstanding any other law, the State Bar is expressly
10authorized to collect, in conjunction with the State Bar’s collection
11of its annual membership dues, voluntary fees on behalf of, and
12for the purpose of funding, the Public Interest Attorney Loan
13Repayment Program (Article 12 (commencing with Section 69740)
14of Chapter 2 of Part 42 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education
15Code), which provides loan assistance to licensed attorneys who
16practice or agree to practice in public interest areas of the law in
17this state.
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