BILL NUMBER: AB 2764	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Judiciary (Feuer (Chair), Brownley,
Evans, Jones, Lieu, and Monning)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2010

   An act to amend Section 6140 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to the State Bar Act.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2764, as introduced, Committee on Judiciary. The State Bar Act:
fees.
   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 requires the Board of Governors of the
State Bar to charge an annual membership fee for active members of up
to $315 for the year 2010. Existing law also requires the board to
charge an annual membership fee for inactive members of up to $75.
Under existing law, these fees are payable on or before the first day
of March 2010.
   This bill would require the board to charge that annual membership
fee for active members for 2011. The bill would also specify that
the annual membership fee for active members and inactive members is
payable on or before the first day of February of each year.
   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 6140 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   6140.  (a)  The board shall fix the annual membership fee for
active members for  2010   2011  at a sum
not exceeding three hundred fifteen dollars ($315).
   (b)  The annual membership fee for active members for 2010 is
payable on or before the first day of  March 2010 
 February of each year  . If the board finds it appropriate
and feasible, it may provide by rule for payment of fees on an
installment basis with interest, by credit card, or other means, and
may charge members choosing any alternative method of payment an
additional fee to defray costs incurred by that election. 
   (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 6141, the annual
membership fee for inactive members for 2010 is payable on or before
the first day of March 2010.  
   (d) 
    (c)  This section shall remain in effect only until
January 1  , 2011   2012  , and, as of that
date, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted
before January 1,  2011   2012  , deletes
or extends that date.