2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 3 - PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY
CHAPTER 4 - Attorneys
ARTICLE 3 - Investigations, Examining Committee, Subpoenas, and Other Proceedings
Section 6046.5.

Universal Citation:
CA Bus & Prof Code § 6046.5 (2025)
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6046.5. Three of the public members of the examining committee shall be appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, three of the public members shall be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, and three of the public members shall be appointed by the Governor. They shall serve for a term of four years, except that of the initial public members so appointed, two shall serve for two years and four shall serve for four years, as shall be determined by lot. The public members appointed pursuant to the amendment of this section during the 1987–88 Regular Session of the Legislature shall serve for four years. The public members shall have the same rights, powers, and privileges as any attorney member except that such a member shall not participate in the drafting of questions submitted to applicants on the California bar examination.

(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 659, Sec. 36. (AB 3249) Effective January 1, 2019.)

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