BILL NUMBER: SB 134	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hertzberg
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Alejo)
   (Coauthor: Senator Pavley)

                        JANUARY 22, 2015

   An act to amend Section 6032 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to attorneys.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 6032 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   6032.   (a)    Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the State Bar is expressly authorized to collect,
in conjunction with the State Bar's collection of its annual
membership dues, voluntary fees on behalf  of  
of,  and for the purpose of  funding  
funding,  the California Supreme Court Historical Society, which
advances the science of jurisprudence by preserving and
disseminating to the general public the history of the Supreme Court
and the Judicial Branch. 
   (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the State Bar is expressly
authorized to collect, in conjunction with the State Bar's collection
of its annual membership dues, voluntary fees on behalf of, and for
the purpose of funding, the Public Interest Attorney Loan Repayment
Program (Article 12 (commencing with Section 69740) of Chapter 2 of
Part 42 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code), which
provides loan assistance to licensed attorneys who practice or agree
to practice in public interest areas of the law in this state.