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Recently Enacted Legislation: Legislature passes SB 1459, B&P §6126 amended [Effective Jan. 1] - On Sept. 5, 2002, the governor approved Senate Bill 1459, which amends §6126 of the Business & Professions Code, relating to the practice of law.
This law provides for in-creased penalties, making the practice or attempted practice of law without a license a misdemeanor punishable by six months to a year in county jail and a fine of $1,000, or both.
It also creates a mandatory minimum punishment of 90 days in jail for subsequent convictions. The ability to charge an offender with a felony was deleted from an earlier version of the bill due to Three Strikes law considerations.

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