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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 47: February 2025 bar exam: audit.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 47 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on December 12, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: February 2025 bar exam: audit. Primary sponsor: Thomas Umberg (D). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (October 1, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 209, Statutes of 2025.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

The State Bar Act provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California (State Bar), a public corporation governed by a board of trustees. The act sets forth the requirements for a license to practice law in California, including passing the general bar examination. The act requires the board of trustees to contract with the California State Auditor every 2 years to conduct a performance audit of the State Bar’s operations.

This bill would require the California State Auditor to conduct an audit of the February 2025 bar exam, as specified, and to submit the audit as soon as possible to the board of trustees, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Judiciary. The bill would require the State Bar to provide the California State Auditor with the funding necessary to cover the costs of the audit.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Thomas UmbergPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate34
Blanca PachecoCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly64

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 209, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2878.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. Urgency clause adopted.
  6. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  7. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3167.) Ordered to the Senate.
  8. Ordered to third reading.
  9. Read third time and amended.
  10. Ordered to third reading.
  11. Action rescinded whereby bill was read a third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
  12. In Assembly. Held at Desk.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page