BILL NUMBER: AB 2187	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cooley

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 18966 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to children.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2187, as introduced, Cooley. County children's trust funds.
   Existing law requires that specified fees be paid by certain
applicants for certified copies of birth certificates. Existing law
provides that $4 of each fee be paid to either a county children's
trust fund or to the State Children's Trust Fund, to fund child abuse
and neglect prevention and intervention programs. Existing law
requires a county treasurer to transmit moneys collected from birth
certificate fees that are for the county children's trust fund and
that are collected with respect to the birth certificate of a child
whose mother was a resident of another county at the time of the
birth to the treasurer of the county of the mother's residence at the
time of the birth if the county to receive the funds, among other
things, does not have a licensed health facility that provides
maternity services within its jurisdiction.
   This bill would delete the requirement that the county to receive
the funds does not have a licensed health facility that provides
maternity services within its jurisdiction.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 18966 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   18966.   (a)    When a county board of
supervisors designates a commission pursuant to Section 18965, the
board of supervisors shall establish a county children's trust fund.
The children's trust fund shall consist of the fees for birth
certificates, collected pursuant to Section 103625 of the Health and
Safety Code, grants, gifts, or bequests from private sources to be
used for child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention
programs, any funds appropriated by local governmental entities to
the trust fund, and any funds appropriated to the county for the
trust fund by the Legislature. The local registrar or county recorder
may, however, retain a percentage, not to exceed 10 percent, of the
surcharge collectible pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 103625
of the Health and Safety Code, in order to defray the costs of
collection. 
    The 
    (b)     The  county treasurer shall
transmit moneys collected from birth certificate fees for the county
children's trust fund, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 103625
of the Health and Safety Code, collected with respect to the birth
certificate of a child whose mother was a resident of another county
at the time of the birth to the treasurer of the county of the mother'
s residence at the time of the birth if the county to receive the
funds has established a program pursuant to  Article 5
(commencing with Section 18965) of Chapter 11 of Part 6 of Division 9
of the Welfare and Institutions Code and does not have a licensed
health facility that provides maternity services within its
jurisdiction.   this article.