SB 387, as introduced, Jackson. Attorneys: annual membership fees.
Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public corporation. The State Bar is governed by a board of trustees. Existing law authorizes the board, among other duties, to aid in all matters pertaining to the improvement of the administration of justice, including all matters that may advance the professional interests of the members of the State Bar. Existing law, beginning January 1, 2015, until January 1, 2016, requires the board to charge an annual membership fee for active members of up to $315 for 2015.
This bill would, until January 1, 2017, require the board to charge that annual membership fee for 2016.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 6140 of the Business and Professions
2Code, as amended by Section 3 of Chapter 429 of the Statutes of
32014, is amended to read:
(a) The board shall fix the annual membership fee for
5active members forbegin delete 2015end deletebegin insert 2016end insert at a sum not exceeding three
6hundred fifteen dollars ($315).
P2 1(b) The annual membership fee for active members is payable
2on or before the first day of February of each year. If the board
3finds it appropriate and feasible, it may provide by rule for payment
4of fees on an installment basis with interest, by credit card, or other
5means, and may charge members choosing any alternative method
6of payment an additional fee to defray costs incurred by that
7election.
8(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,begin delete 2016,end delete
9begin insert
2017,end insert and, as of that date, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
10that is enacted before January 1,begin delete 2016,end deletebegin insert 2017,end insert deletes or extends
11that date.
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