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Bill	Law schools: unaccredited law school disclosures.	Existing law requires any law school that is not accredited by the examining committee of the State Bar of California (State Bar) to provide every student with a disclosure statement, subsequent to the payment of any application fee but prior to the payment of any registration fee, that contains, among other things, a statement that the law school is not accredited and the number and percentage of students who have taken and who have passed the first-year law student's examination and the final bar examination in the previous 5 years, or since the establishment of the school, whichever time is less, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 1281	California SB 1281 (20152016)	bill	Law schools: unaccredited law school disclosures.	enacted	Block	8	23	5	2016-02-19	2016-07-22	openstates	ocd-bill/e3d121e6-e094-4f38-9145-3e15f6aa3b08	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1281	893645460e7c766d7d00e291f7b1180597f68866d80e8425db05e4a359b7af35	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1281 (20152016) — Law schools: unaccredited law school disclosures.

Existing law requires any law school that is not accredited by the examining committee of the State Bar of California (State Bar) to provide every student with a disclosure statement, subsequent to the payment of any application fee but prior to the payment of any registration fee, that contains, among other things, a statement that the law school is not accredited and the number and percentage of students who have taken and who have passed the first-year law student's examination and the final bar examination in the previous 5 years, or since the establishment of the school, whichever time is less, as specified.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/22/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB1281 (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/05/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1281 Block Senate Third Reading By WILLIAMS — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent # — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Block — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 Set for hearing April 26.
• 2016-04-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-27 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3700.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3775.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-05 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-09 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5401.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-16 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-06-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2016-06-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4655.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-07-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-07-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-07-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 87, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3d121e6-e094-4f38-9145-3e15f6aa3b08. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).