California Assembly Bill AB1546 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1546AMENDED 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.