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Bill	California bar examination.	The State Bar Act provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public corporation governed by a board of trustees. Existing law authorizes the board of trustees to establish an examining committee, also known as the Committee of Bar Examiners, and requires an applicant for a license to practice law to pass the general bar examination, known as the California bar examination, given by the examining committee. Existing law prohibits the examining committee from altering the bar examination in a manner that requires the substantial modification of the training or preparation required for passage of the examination, except after giving 2 years' notice of that change.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 484	California AB 484 (20252026)	bill	Californiabarexamination	enacted	Dixon	8	25	5	2025-02-10	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/904dacbe-eae0-4e1a-9a9d-1836c7c1fa8b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB484	f7366ba47045fab67282e8719a3fcc1fd21ce50eb9643fb10b9d6b7bb13ee779	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 484 (20252026) — California bar examination.

The State Bar Act provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public corporation governed by a board of trustees. Existing law authorizes the board of trustees to establish an examining committee, also known as the Committee of Bar Examiners, and requires an applicant for a license to practice law to pass the general bar examination, known as the California bar examination, given by the examining committee. Existing law prohibits the examining committee from altering the bar examination in a manner that requires the substantial modification of the training or preparation required for passage of the examination, except after giving 2 years' notice of that change.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/01/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB484 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB484 Dixon By Umberg — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 484 Dixon Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 484 Dixon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dixon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-03-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-24 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-09 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1176.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-07-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-10 From Consent Calendar.
• 2025-07-10 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2883.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-13 Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
• 2025-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3502.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 155, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/904dacbe-eae0-4e1a-9a9d-1836c7c1fa8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).