California enacted three new pieces of legislation this month to strengthen oversight of the state’s bar exam and to determine what caused its February attorney licensing test to unravel.

The most sweeping of those bills, signed into law Tuesday by Governor Gavin Newsom, requires the State Bar of California's Committee of Bar Examiners to provide two years' notice before switching from in-person to online testing and to give 18 months' notice before changing the vendor that provides the exam’s multiple-choice questions. It also requires the state bar to give notice if artificial intelligence is used to create exam questions or in grading.

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