Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session
Relating to: allowing district attorneys, deputy district attorneys, and assistant district attorneys to engage in the private practice of law for certain civil purposes.
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a full-time district attorney, deputy district attorney, or
assistant district attorney (district attorney) may not generally engage in the private
practice of law. However, a district attorney may complete work in a civil case with
which he or she was involved before he or she took office, so long as that work is not
in conflict with any interests of the district attorney's county.
Under this bill, a full-time district attorney may also provide legal services to
a person of limited means or to a charitable, religious, civic, community,
governmental, or educational organization if the attorney provides the services
without fee and the services are not in conflict with the interests of the district
attorney's county.
Sponsors
Full history
- Jun 29, 2015 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Kessler, Horlacher, Wachs, C. Taylor, Ohnstad and Sinicki; cosponsored by Senators L. Taylor and Lassa
- Jun 29, 2015 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary
- Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1