AB 1546, as introduced, Olsen. Vital records.
Existing law prescribes specified personal information to be included on birth, death, and marriage certificates. Under existing law, a certified copy of a birth or death record may only be supplied by the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder to an authorized person, as defined, who submits a statement sworn under penalty of perjury that the applicant is an authorized person. Existing law also requires that each certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage record contain specified information and be printed on sensitized security paper with specified features, including, among others, intaglio print.
This bill would authorize a certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage record to include a feature other than intaglio print that provides equal or greater security protection than intaglio print.
Existing law requires the State Registrar to appoint a Vital Records Protection Advisory Committee to study and make recommendations to protect individual privacy, inhibit identity theft, and prevent fraud involving birth, death, and marriage certificates while providing needed access to the information contained in those records by persons seeking it for a legitimate purpose.
This bill would require the State Registrar, in consultation with the County Recorders’ Association of California and other stakeholders, to study the feasibility of the continued use of intaglio print and the implementation of different security features for paper used to print a vital record. The bill would require the State Registrar to submit a report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2017, that contains the findings of that study and legislative recommendations pertaining to those findings.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2⁄3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 103526.5 of the Health and Safety Code
2 is amended to read:
(a) Each certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage
4record issued pursuant to Section 103525 shall include the date
5issued, the name of the issuing officer, the signature of the issuing
6officer, whether that is the State Registrar, local registrar, county
7recorder, or county clerk, or an authorized facsimile thereof, and
8the seal of the issuing office.
9(b) All certified copies of birth, death, and marriage records
10issued pursuant to Section 103525 shall be printed on chemically
11sensitized security paper that measures 81⁄2 inches by 11 inches
12and that has the following features:
13(1) Intagliobegin delete print.end deletebegin insert
print, or another feature that provides equal
14or greater security protection.end insert
15(2) Latent image.
16(3) Fluorescent, consecutive numbering with matching barcode.
17(4) Microprint line.
18(5) Prismatic printing.
19(6) Watermark.
20(7) Void pantograph.
21(8) Fluorescent security threads.
22(9) Fluorescent fibers.
23(10) Any other security features deemed necessary by the State
24Registrar.
P3 1(c) The State Registrar, local registrars, county recorders, and
2county clerks shall take precautions to ensure that uniform and
3consistent standards are used statewide to safeguard the security
4paper described in subdivision (b), including, but not limited to,
5the following measures:
6(1) Security paper shall be maintained under secure conditions
7so as not to be accessible to the public.
8(2) A log shall be kept of all visitors allowed in the area where
9security paper is stored.
10(3) All spoilage shall be accounted for and subsequently
11destroyed by shredding on the premises.
Section 103526.6 is added to the Health and Safety
13Code, to read:
(a) The State Registrar, in consultation with the
15County Recorders’ Association of California and other
16stakeholders, shall study the feasibility of the continued use of
17intaglio print and the implementation of other security features for
18paper used to print a vital record pursuant to Section 103525.
19(b) (1) On or before January 1, 2017, the State Registrar shall
20submit to the Legislature a report that contains the findings of the
21study conducted pursuant to subdivision (a) and legislative
22recommendations pertaining to those findings.
23(2) A report submitted to the Legislature pursuant to this
24subdivision shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795
25of
the Government Code.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
27immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
28the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
29immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
30In order for the State Registrar to conduct a study regarding the
31feasibility of continued use of intaglio print and the implementation
32of other security features for paper used to print a vital record as
33soon as possible, and to ensure timely reporting of the findings of
34that study to the Legislature, it is necessary that this act take effect
35immediately.
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