REFERENCE TITLE: legal document preparers; license requirements State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HB 2343 Introduced by Representative Hendrix AN ACT Amending section 12-112.01, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the supreme court. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
REFERENCE TITLE: legal document preparers; license requirements
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
HB 2343
Introduced by Representative Hendrix
REFERENCE TITLE: legal document preparers; license requirements
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
2025
HB 2343
Introduced by
Representative Hendrix
AN ACT
Amending section 12-112.01, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the supreme court.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 12-112.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE12-112.01. Education programs; state agency license requirements; state bar members; certified legal document preparers; definition A. The supreme court shall provide that if a member of the state bar or a certified legal document preparer attends a continuing education program and earns continuing education credit to fulfill a state agency license renewal requirement, the state bar member or certified legal document preparer shall also earn credit for the member's or document preparer's annual continuing legal education activity requirement for the continuing education program to fulfill the state agency license renewal requirement if that continuing education program does all of the following: 1. Consists of an organized program of learning. 2. Deals with matters directly related to the law. 3. Follows an agenda. 4. Is accompanied by substantive or practical written materials or exercises. B. For the purposes of this section, "state agency license renewal requirement" means an amount of continuing education that a person must obtain in order to satisfy a requirement imposed by law to maintain or renew a professional license issued by an agency, board, commission or department of this state. END_STATUTE
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 12-112.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE12-112.01. Education programs; state agency license requirements; state bar members; certified legal document preparers; definition
A. The supreme court shall provide that if a member of the state bar or a certified legal document preparer attends a continuing education program and earns continuing education credit to fulfill a state agency license renewal requirement, the state bar member or certified legal document preparer shall also earn credit for the member's or document preparer's annual continuing legal education activity requirement for the continuing education program to fulfill the state agency license renewal requirement if that continuing education program does all of the following:
1. Consists of an organized program of learning.
2. Deals with matters directly related to the law.
3. Follows an agenda.
4. Is accompanied by substantive or practical written materials or exercises.
B. For the purposes of this section, "state agency license renewal requirement" means an amount of continuing education that a person must obtain in order to satisfy a requirement imposed by law to maintain or renew a professional license issued by an agency, board, commission or department of this state. END_STATUTE