Government
Jul. 19, 2017
Assembly committee approves bill splitting off State Bar’s sections
The revised bill also gives the bar the explicit authority to re-fingerprint active lawyers so that it can receive arrest alerts about them, and it opens the door to the bar potentially passing on to attorneys the $9.3 million in estimated re-fingerprinting costs.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that would split off the State Bar’s specialty practice groups into a private nonprofit as part of an overhaul of the agency that has drawn bipartisan backing following a divisive legislative stalemate last year.
The revised bill also gives the bar the explicit authority to re-fingerprint active lawyers so that it can receive arrest alerts about them, and it opens t...
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