A key state lawmaker says his colleagues should use their authority over the annual bar dues bill to “restructure” the fee schedule so high-salaried attorneys pay more than their lower-earning counterparts in the profession.

Assemblyman Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley, told members of the Judiciary Committee, which he chairs, that bar leaders’ pending request to the Legislature for a $100 annual fee hike—plus $330 in one-time assessments in 2020—is “our opportunity to take some of the regressive nature of that fee structure out.”