20250AB__210998AMD INTRODUCED 2026-02-18 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2026-03-17 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Dixon LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Dixon

An act to add

Section 6046.9 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to attorneys. attorneys 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 years’ notice of that change.

Existing law requires the Committee of Bar Examiners, on or before November 30, 2026, to provide a report to the board of trustees, the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, and to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Judiciary on whether adopting a uniform bar examination would be more efficient to administer and lower the cost of administration for the State Bar and examinees. This bill would require the examining committee, on January 1, 2029, to replace the California bar examination with the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ Uniform Bar Examination or any successor or replacement of that exam.

MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 6046.9 is added to the Business and Professions Code , to read: 6046.9. On January 1, 2029, the examining committee shall replace the California bar examination with the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ Uniform Bar Examination or any successor or replacement of that exam.