State lawmakers will try again this year to encourage California lawyers to provide pro bono legal services—this time with a “light touch.”

Assembly Bill 2505 by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, would ask lawyers to tell the state bar annually how many hours of free or reduced-fee legal work they completed over the previous year. And while the disclosure would technically be mandatory, the legislation contains no mechanism to penalize lawyers who don’t submit a report or who didn’t perform pro bono work. Additionally, each lawyer’s answers would remain confidential.