BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB 1733 (Quirk-Silva, et al.)
As Amended May 23, 2014
Majority vote
HEALTH 19-0 TRANSPORTATION 16-0
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|Ayes:|Pan, Maienschein, |Ayes:|Lowenthal, Linder, |
| |Ammiano, Atkins, Bonilla, | |Achadjian, Ammiano, |
| |Rendon, Chávez, Chesbro, | |Bloom, Bonta, Buchanan, |
| |Gomez, Gonzalez, Roger | |Daly, Frazier, Gatto, |
| |Hernández, Mansoor, | |Holden, Logue, Nazarian, |
| |Nazarian, Nestande, | |Patterson, Quirk-Silva, |
| |Patterson, Ridley-Thomas, | |Waldron |
| |Wagner, Wieckowski, | | |
| |Bocanegra | | |
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APPROPRIATIONS 17-0
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|Ayes:|Gatto, Bigelow, |
| |Bocanegra, Bradford, Ian |
| |Calderon, Campos, |
| |Donnelly, Eggman, Gomez, |
| |Holden, Jones, Linder, |
| |Pan, Quirk, |
| |Ridley-Thomas, Wagner, |
| |Weber |
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SUMMARY : Requires a local registrar or county recorder to
issue, without a fee, a certified record of live birth and
requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue,
without a fee, identification (ID) cards to applicants who can
verify that they are homeless. Specifically, this bill :
1)Requires a local registrar or county recorder to issue,
without a fee, a certified record of live birth to an
applicant who can verify that he or she is homeless and allows
a homeless services provider, as defined, with knowledge of
the person's housing status to verify the person's
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homelessness.
2)Requires the State Department of Public Health (DPH) to
develop an affidavit that permits a person requesting a
certified record of live birth to attest to his or her status
as a homeless person or a homeless child or youth, and allows
DPH to administer the use of the affidavit through an
all-county letter.
3)Requires the DMV to issue, without a fee, an ID card or senior
citizen ID card to an applicant who can verify that he or she
is homeless and allows a homeless services provider, as
defined, with knowledge of the person's housing status to
verify the person's homelessness.
4)Requires the DMV to adopt regulations regarding the
determination of eligibility for a free ID card and prohibits
a person applying for a free ID card from being charged a fee
for verification of their eligibility.
5)Defines "homeless person," and "homeless child or youth" as
referenced by the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance
Act, in part as: a) an individual or family who lacks a
fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; an
individual or family with a primary nighttime residence that
is a public or private place not designed for or ordinarily
used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings,
including a car, park, abandoned building, bus or train
station, airport, or camping ground; or, b) an individual or
family living in a supervised publicly or privately operated
shelter designated to provide temporary living arrangements
(including hotels and motels paid for by Federal, State, or
local government programs for low-income individuals or by
charitable organizations, congregate shelters, and
transitional housing).
6)Specifies that the provisions of this bill take effect January
1, 2016.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, one-time costs in the range of $150,000 to the DMV
(Motor Vehicle Account) for programming costs to allow for the
no-fee ID card, processing and mailing of additional ID cards,
revision of publications and forms, establishment of
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regulations, and development and issuance of memorandum to
staff.
In January 2013, there were approximately 136,000 homeless
individuals in California. If 5% of these individuals requested
an identifying document in a given year, this bill would
generate costs of $50,000 to the General Fund in
state-reimbursable mandate costs to account for lost revenue to
counties and additional workload. This bill would also result
in minor revenue loss and additional workload, likely around
$100,000 statewide (Motor Vehicle Account) to DMV to provide
free ID cards.
COMMENTS : According to the authors, many people experiencing
homelessness lack the necessary forms of personal identification
needed to establish their eligibility for various public
assistance and social programs and the most common forms of ID
that people need in order to access these programs are birth
records and a valid, government-issued photo ID card.
The base fee for a copy of a birth certificate is $12 and
counties are allowed to raise the fee to cover the costs of
modernizing vital record operations and improving the collection
and analysis of health related birth and death certificate
information. Costs vary from county to county with the average
cost to receive a copy of a birth certificate falling between
$23 and $28. According to DPH they do not currently have a
process in place to provide a free or reduced cost birth
certificate.
The DMV offers a reduced fee ID card to applicants who have been
identified by a governmental or non-profit agency as meeting the
income eligibility requirements for certain specified assistance
programs, including but not limited to, California Work
Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids, CalFresh (food stamps).
Outside of the cost, there is no difference between the reduced
fee ID and the ID issued to applicants that pay the full amount.
A government or non-profit agency must contact DMV to request
the verification paperwork and confirm that a customer's income
meets the requirements for a reduced fee ID card. The agency
will complete the paperwork which is provided to the customer to
bring into their local DMV office for processing. Currently,
the reduced fee ID card is $8. In the 12 months ending November
2013, DMV issued a total of 143,726 reduced fee ID cards, of
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which 34,193 were original ID cards and the rest were renewals.
Analysis Prepared by : Lara Flynn / HEALTH / (916) 319-2097
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