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type: "Bill"
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title: "Law schools: unaccredited law school disclosures."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "SB 1281"
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citation: "California SB 1281 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Law schools: unaccredited law school disclosures."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Block"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2016-02-19"
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last_action: "2016-07-22"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3d121e6-e094-4f38-9145-3e15f6aa3b08"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1281"
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source_hash: "893645460e7c766d7d00e291f7b1180597f68866d80e8425db05e4a359b7af35"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 1281 (20152016) — Law schools: unaccredited law school disclosures.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/19/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1281&version=20150SB128199INT)
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2. **03/28/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1281&version=20150SB128198AMD)
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3. **04/18/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1281&version=20150SB128197AMD)
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4. **05/27/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1281&version=20150SB128196AMD)
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5. **06/13/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1281&version=20150SB128195AMD)
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6. **07/22/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1281&version=20150SB128193CHP)
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7. **SB1281** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1281)
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8. **07/05/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1281&version=20150SB128194ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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- SB 1281 Block Senate Third Reading By WILLIAMS — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper
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- Special Consent # — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Block — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2016-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
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- **2016-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
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- **2016-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
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- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2016-04-14** Set for hearing April 26.
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- **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`
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- **2016-04-27** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3700.) (April 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2016-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2016-05-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3775.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2016-05-05** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2016-05-12** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2016-06-09** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2016-06-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2016-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2016-06-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5401.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2016-06-16** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2016-06-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2016-06-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4655.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2016-07-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2016-07-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2016-07-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 87, Statutes of 2016.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e3d121e6-e094-4f38-9145-3e15f6aa3b08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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