California 2019-2020 Regular Session

California Senate Bill SB357 Latest Draft

Bill / Amended Version Filed 03/28/2019

                            Amended IN  Senate  March 28, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 357Introduced by Senator Borgeas(Coauthors: Senators Bates, Nielsen, Stone, and Wilk)(Coauthors: Assembly Members Mathis and Rodriguez)February 19, 2019 An act to add Section 102779 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to vital statistics. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 357, as amended, Borgeas. Death: notification: consumer credit reporting agencies. Existing law creates the State Department of Public Health and provides that the head of that department is the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. Existing law requires the state registrar to establish registration districts within the state for the purpose of registering births and deaths. Existing law requires that a death be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the body was found, within 8 calendar days after death. Existing law requires the department to implement an electronic death registration system for the creation, storage, and transfer of death registration information. Existing state and federal law define and regulate credit reporting agencies, which provide reports bearing on a consumers creditworthiness. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health, Health to negotiate with a credit reporting agency, as defined, that wishes to receive notices of death from the department. If the department and agency reach a mutually acceptable agreement in this regard, the bill would require the department, within 14 days of a death registration with the electronic death registration system, to provide notice of an individuals death to the credit reporting agencies that compile and maintain files on consumers on a nationwide basis. agency for the purpose of placing a warning in the decedents credit report, as specified. The bill would require the department to furnish the necessary information in its possession to properly identify the individual. The bill would authorize the department to provide the notification in the manner it deems most economical and efficient, including electronically.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: YES  Local Program: NO Bill Text The department may provide the notification in the manner it deems most economical and efficient, including electronically.(c) For purposes of this section, consumer reporting agency means one that compiles and maintains files on consumers on a nationwide basis and meets the definition in Section 603(p) of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1681a(p)). 

 Amended IN  Senate  March 28, 2019 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 357Introduced by Senator Borgeas(Coauthors: Senators Bates, Nielsen, Stone, and Wilk)(Coauthors: Assembly Members Mathis and Rodriguez)February 19, 2019 An act to add Section 102779 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to vital statistics. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSB 357, as amended, Borgeas. Death: notification: consumer credit reporting agencies. Existing law creates the State Department of Public Health and provides that the head of that department is the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. Existing law requires the state registrar to establish registration districts within the state for the purpose of registering births and deaths. Existing law requires that a death be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the body was found, within 8 calendar days after death. Existing law requires the department to implement an electronic death registration system for the creation, storage, and transfer of death registration information. Existing state and federal law define and regulate credit reporting agencies, which provide reports bearing on a consumers creditworthiness. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health, Health to negotiate with a credit reporting agency, as defined, that wishes to receive notices of death from the department. If the department and agency reach a mutually acceptable agreement in this regard, the bill would require the department, within 14 days of a death registration with the electronic death registration system, to provide notice of an individuals death to the credit reporting agencies that compile and maintain files on consumers on a nationwide basis. agency for the purpose of placing a warning in the decedents credit report, as specified. The bill would require the department to furnish the necessary information in its possession to properly identify the individual. The bill would authorize the department to provide the notification in the manner it deems most economical and efficient, including electronically.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY  Appropriation: NO  Fiscal Committee: YES  Local Program: NO 

 Amended IN  Senate  March 28, 2019

Amended IN  Senate  March 28, 2019

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill No. 357

Introduced by Senator Borgeas(Coauthors: Senators Bates, Nielsen, Stone, and Wilk)(Coauthors: Assembly Members Mathis and Rodriguez)February 19, 2019

Introduced by Senator Borgeas(Coauthors: Senators Bates, Nielsen, Stone, and Wilk)(Coauthors: Assembly Members Mathis and Rodriguez)
February 19, 2019

 An act to add Section 102779 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to vital statistics. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 357, as amended, Borgeas. Death: notification: consumer credit reporting agencies. 

Existing law creates the State Department of Public Health and provides that the head of that department is the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. Existing law requires the state registrar to establish registration districts within the state for the purpose of registering births and deaths. Existing law requires that a death be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the body was found, within 8 calendar days after death. Existing law requires the department to implement an electronic death registration system for the creation, storage, and transfer of death registration information. Existing state and federal law define and regulate credit reporting agencies, which provide reports bearing on a consumers creditworthiness. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health, Health to negotiate with a credit reporting agency, as defined, that wishes to receive notices of death from the department. If the department and agency reach a mutually acceptable agreement in this regard, the bill would require the department, within 14 days of a death registration with the electronic death registration system, to provide notice of an individuals death to the credit reporting agencies that compile and maintain files on consumers on a nationwide basis. agency for the purpose of placing a warning in the decedents credit report, as specified. The bill would require the department to furnish the necessary information in its possession to properly identify the individual. The bill would authorize the department to provide the notification in the manner it deems most economical and efficient, including electronically.

Existing law creates the State Department of Public Health and provides that the head of that department is the State Registrar of Vital Statistics. Existing law requires the state registrar to establish registration districts within the state for the purpose of registering births and deaths. Existing law requires that a death be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the body was found, within 8 calendar days after death. Existing law requires the department to implement an electronic death registration system for the creation, storage, and transfer of death registration information. Existing state and federal law define and regulate credit reporting agencies, which provide reports bearing on a consumers creditworthiness. 

This bill would require the State Department of Public Health, Health to negotiate with a credit reporting agency, as defined, that wishes to receive notices of death from the department. If the department and agency reach a mutually acceptable agreement in this regard, the bill would require the department, within 14 days of a death registration with the electronic death registration system, to provide notice of an individuals death to the credit reporting agencies that compile and maintain files on consumers on a nationwide basis. agency for the purpose of placing a warning in the decedents credit report, as specified. The bill would require the department to furnish the necessary information in its possession to properly identify the individual. The bill would authorize the department to provide the notification in the manner it deems most economical and efficient, including electronically.

## Digest Key

## Bill Text

 The department may provide the notification in the manner it deems most economical and efficient, including electronically.(c) For purposes of this section, consumer reporting agency means one that compiles and maintains files on consumers on a nationwide basis and meets the definition in Section 603(p) of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1681a(p)). 

 The department may provide the notification in the manner it deems most economical and efficient, including electronically.

##  The department may provide the notification in the manner it deems most economical and efficient, including electronically.

(c) For purposes of this section, consumer reporting agency means one that compiles and maintains files on consumers on a nationwide basis and meets the definition in Section 603(p) of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1681a(p)).