BILL NUMBER: AB 2645INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Wagner FEBRUARY 24, 2012 An act to amend Section 6077 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to attorneys. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2645, as introduced, Wagner. Attorneys: rules of professional conduct. Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California. The State Bar is governed by the board of trustees of the State Bar. Under existing law, rules of professional conduct adopted by the board of trustees are binding upon all members of the State Bar and the board has power to discipline members for a willful breach of those rules. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 6077 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read: 6077. The rules of professional conduct adopted by the board, when approved by the Supreme Court, are binding upon all members of the State Bar. For awilfulwillful breach of any of these rules, the board has power to discipline members of the State Bar by reproval, public or private, or to recommend to the Supreme Court the suspension from practice for a period not exceeding three years of members of the State Bar.