AB 1546 Assembly Bill

BILL NUMBER: AB 1546	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 7, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Olsen
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Daly and Ting)

                        SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

   An act to  amend Section 103526.5 of, and to  add
Section 103526.6  to,   to  the Health and
Safety Code, relating to vital records, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1546, as amended, 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  
all  security features for paper used to print a vital 
record.   record, or alternative security features that
are equal to or better than those that are currently mandated. 
The bill would require the State Registrar to submit a report to the
Legislature, on or before January 1,  2017,  
2018,  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 1.    Section 103526.5 of the Health and
Safety Code is amended to read:
   103526.5.  (a) Each certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage
record issued pursuant to Section 103525 shall include the date
issued, the name of the issuing officer, the signature of the issuing
officer, whether that is the State Registrar, local registrar,
county recorder, or county clerk, or an authorized facsimile thereof,
and the seal of the issuing office.
   (b) All certified copies of birth, death, and marriage records
issued pursuant to Section 103525 shall be printed on chemically
sensitized security paper that measures 81/2 inches by 11 inches and
that has the following features:
   (1) Intaglio print, or another feature that provides equal or
greater security protection.
   (2) Latent image.
   (3) Fluorescent, consecutive numbering with matching barcode.
   (4) Microprint line.
   (5) Prismatic printing.
   (6) Watermark.
   (7) Void pantograph.
   (8) Fluorescent security threads.
   (9) Fluorescent fibers.
   (10) Any other security features deemed necessary by the State
Registrar.
   (c) The State Registrar, local registrars, county recorders, and
county clerks shall take precautions to ensure that uniform and
consistent standards are used statewide to safeguard the security
paper described in subdivision (b), including, but not limited to,
the following measures:
   (1) Security paper shall be maintained under secure conditions so
as not to be accessible to the public.
   (2) A log shall be kept of all visitors allowed in the area where
security paper is stored.
   (3) All spoilage shall be accounted for and subsequently destroyed
by shredding on the premises. 
   SEC. 2.   SECTION 1.   Section 103526.6
is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
   103526.6.  (a) The State Registrar, in consultation with the
County Recorders' Association of California and other stakeholders,
shall study  the feasibility of the continued use of intaglio
print and the implementation of other   all 
security features for paper used to print a vital record pursuant to
Section  103525.   103525, or alternative
security features that are equal to or better than those that are
currently mandated. 
   (b) (1) On or before January 1,  2017,  
2018,  the State Registrar shall submit to the Legislature a
report that contains the findings of the study conducted pursuant to
subdivision (a) and legislative recommendations pertaining to those
findings.
   (2) A report submitted to the Legislature pursuant to this
subdivision shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the
Government Code.
   SEC. 3.   SEC. 2.   This act is an
urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of
the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts
constituting the necessity are:
   In order for the State Registrar to conduct a study regarding
 the feasibility of continued use of intaglio print and the
implementation of other   all  security features
for paper used to print a vital  record  
record, or alternative security features that are equal to or better
than those that are currently mandated,  as soon as possible,
and to ensure timely reporting of the findings of that study to the
Legislature, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.