BILL NUMBER: AB 2187	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  61
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 25, 2014
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 25, 2014
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 16, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

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, 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, as specified.


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.
   (b) (1) 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 this article.
   (2) Paragraph (1) applies only to the collection and payment of
the four-dollar ($4) fee to the county children's trust fund,
pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 103625 of the Health and
Safety Code, and does not apply to the collection and payment of the
two-dollar ($2) fee to the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program
Fund or any other assessment authorized by statute and levied by a
local jurisdiction.