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Bill	State government.	(1) 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, composed as prescribed, including a maximum of 6 public members who have never been licensees of the State Bar or admitted to practice before any court in the United States. Existing law subjects these public members to specified conflict-of-interest provisions, including prohibiting a public member from having, currently or within the 5 years immediately preceding their appointment, a prescribed relationship as or with an employer of a licensee of the board or a prescribed contractual relationship with a licensee of the board.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 156	California AB 156 (20212022)	bill appropriation	State government.	enacted	Committee on Budget	8	31	5	2021-01-08	2022-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/6d4527e6-033c-4c10-a9f3-9ced6a664f0c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB156	64a40a59079beac85c9c6fb0784f0c21d3b15644f4affb35cdaa16316ac5b4f8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 156 (20212022) — State government.

(1) 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, composed as prescribed, including a maximum of 6 public members who have never been licensees of the State Bar or admitted to practice before any court in the United States. Existing law subjects these public members to specified conflict-of-interest provisions, including prohibiting a public member from having, currently or within the 5 years immediately preceding their appointment, a prescribed relationship as or with an employer of a licensee of the board or a prescribed contractual relationship with a licensee of the board.

Version chain

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

1. 01/08/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 02/18/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/11/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/27/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB156 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/31/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 2nd Reading AB156 BUDGET (Ting) By Skinner — 31–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 156 BUDGET Assembly Third Reading By TING — 56–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 156 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — 64–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Budget — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-08 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-01-09 From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
• 2021-01-11 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
• 2021-02-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-02-22 Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 432.)
• 2021-02-22 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2021-02-22 Ordered to second reading.
• 2021-02-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-02-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 18. Page 489.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-02-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-03-11 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 1627.)
• 2021-06-28 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 1658.)
• 2021-07-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-07-15 Senate Rule 29 suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 7. Page 1962.)
• 2021-08-16 Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2022-02-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Senate rules suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 9.).
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 3.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 8.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 569, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6d4527e6-033c-4c10-a9f3-9ced6a664f0c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).