SACRAMENTO — The State Bar’s annual dues bill now has a much better chance at garnering the governor’s signature than was the case a year ago, when a bar bill sat on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk for weeks, only to get a Sunday veto with a nastygram attached. In nixing that bill, the governor cited among other things an audit that found a less-than-inefficient system for disciplining bar members.

Those concerns haven’t gone away, and partly explain why this year’s dues bill was amended late last month to include provisions aimed at tightening operations.

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