BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 1733 (Quirk-Silva, et al.)
As Amended August 21, 2014
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |77-0 |(May 28, 2014) |SENATE: |34-0 |(August 25, |
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Original Committee Reference: HEALTH
SUMMARY : Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to
issue, without a fee, an identification card to any individual
who can verify his or her status as homeless.
The Senate amendments require the affidavit developed by the
Department of Public Health (DPH) attesting to the applicant's
status as a homeless person to include verification by a
homeless services provider. Authorize DPH to implement this
bill without further regulation.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee:
1)One-time costs of about $300,000 for the development of
regulations and information technology changes to allow DMV to
issue no-cost identification cards (Motor Vehicle Account).
2)Ongoing cost of about $115,000 per year for DMV to issue
no-cost identification cards (Motor Vehicle Account).
3)Ongoing costs to local registrars and county recorders of
about $140,000 per year (local funds or General Fund).
Because the state is mandating local government to issue
no-cost birth certificates, this bill creates a reimbursable
state mandate.
4)Ongoing revenue loss to DPH of about $30,000 due to reduced
birth certificate fees (various funds).
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
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identification (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 and 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 which 34,193 were original ID cards and
the rest were renewals.
Analysis Prepared by : Dharia McGrew / HEALTH / (916) 319-2097
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