SACRAMENTO — A key lawmaker offered an amended state bar dues bill Friday, dropping two reform provisions opposed by Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye in a last-ditch effort to break a legislative stalemate.
Assemblyman Mark Stone, D-Scotts Valley, removed a requirement that non-lawyers hold a voting majority on future boards of trustees. He also axed language creating a commission, with members to be chosen by the governor, legislative leaders and the chief justice, to study whether the bar should de-unify.
