BILL NUMBER: AB 1745	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 8, 2010

   An act to repeal and add Section 103692 of the Health and Safety
Code, relating to vital records.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1745, as amended, Ammiano. Vital records: fees: disposition of
human remains.
   Under existing law, the local registrar of births and deaths is
required to collect various fees for an application for the
disposition of human remains. Existing law requires, as part of those
fees, after January 1, 2005, $4 to be paid to the State Registrar to
implement and maintain the electronic death registration system, as
specified.
   This bill would allow the local registrar of births and deaths to
charge an additional fee of up to $8  , the first $5 of which
would be required to be used  to fund the disposition of
the remains of indigent residents of the county.
   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 103692 of the Health and Safety Code is
repealed.
  SEC. 2.  Section 103692 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   103692.  (a) In addition to the fees prescribed by Section 103065
and by Sections 103675 to 103685, inclusive, an applicant for a
permit for the disposition of human remains shall pay  both
of the following: 
    (1)     A 
 a  fee of four dollars ($4), to be paid to the local
registrar of births and deaths who shall transfer the moneys to the
State Registrar for use, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to
implement and maintain the electronic death registration system
required by Section 102778. 
   (2) A fee of up to eight dollars ($8), to be paid to the local
registrar and used as follows:  
   (A) The first up to five dollars ($5), if charged, shall be used
to 
    (b)     In addition to the fee assessed
pursuant to subdivision (a), the local registrar of a county may
charge an applicant for a permit for the disposition of human remains
a fee in an amount not to exceed eight dollars ($8) to  fund
the disposition of the remains of indigent residents of that county.

   (B) Fee amounts over five dollars ($5), if charged, may be used by
the local registrar for the administration of his or her statutory
duties relating to the disposition of human remains, including, but
not limited to, administration or the disposal of the remains of
indigent residents.  
   (b) 
    (c)  The fees imposed by this section shall be exempt
from adjustment pursuant to Section 100430.