California bar examination.

Assembly Member Dixon frames this measure as a temporary, data-driven inquiry into whether adopting a uniform bar examination would be more efficient to administer and lower costs for the State Bar and examinees. The measure imposes a one-time reporting obligation on the Committee of Bar Examiners to assess the feasibility of adopting a uniform examination, including the Uniform Bar Examination or any successor, and to deliver a structured assessment to the board of trustees, the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, and the Assembly and Senate Committees on Judiciary by November 30, 2026. The new reporting requirement is repealed on January 1, 2030.

Relation to existing law, and how this would operate in practice, remains tightly constrained to the reporting obligation rather than altering licensure or examination structure. The proposal leaves current constraints in place, including the limitation on altering the examination in a manner that substantially modifies training or preparation without prior notice. The report would be guided by Government Code procedures for content and dissemination, and there is no new appropriation attached to the measure. Recipients include the State Bar’s board of trustees, the Chief Justice, and the Assembly and Senate Judiciary committees, establishing formal oversight channels while preserving the current licensure framework; any future shift toward a uniform exam would require subsequent legislative action beyond the sunset.