2019 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 3 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY
CHAPTER 4 - Attorneys
ARTICLE 8 - Revenue
Section 6140.05.

(a) The invoice provided to licensees for payment of the annual license fee shall provide each licensee the option of deducting five dollars ($5) from the annual fee if the licensee elects not to support lobbying and related activities by the State Bar outside of the parameters established by the United States Supreme Court in Keller v. State Bar of California (1990) 496 U.S. 1.

(b) For the support or defense of lobbying and related activities conducted by the State Bar on or after January 1, 2000, outside of the parameters of Keller v. State Bar of California, and in support or defense of any litigation arising therefrom, the Board of Trustees of the State Bar shall not expend a sum exceeding the following: the product of the number of licensees paying their annual fees who did not elect the optional deduction multiplied by five dollars ($5).

Moneys collected pursuant to this section shall not be deemed voluntary fees or funds for the purpose of subdivision (c) of Section 6031.5.

(c) As used in this section, “lobbying and related activities by the State Bar” includes the consideration of measures by the Board of Trustees of the State Bar that are deemed outside the parameters established in Keller v. State Bar, the purview determination, lobbying and the preparation for lobbying of the measures, and any litigation in support or defense of that lobbying. The determination of these costs shall include, but not be limited to, overhead and administrative costs.

(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 659, Sec. 96. (AB 3249) Effective January 1, 2019.)