Jimmy Gomez
- Democratic
Author
Existing law prescribes the duties of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics and local registrars of births and deaths with respect to the registration of a live birth. Under existing law, a certificate of live birth is required to contain, among other things, the full name, birthplace, and date of birth of both the father and mother of a child, except as provided. Existing law provides for the Vital Statistics Advisory Committee, which, among other things, is required to review and make recommendations to the State Registrar as to proposals for addition or deletion of items on the certificate of live birth and advise the State Registrar on the content and format of the certificate. Existing law requires the State Registrar to publish within 30 days of receipt of recommendations by the committee, both a list of the recommendations adopted and a list of the recommendations not adopted, with reasons for the action. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2016, instead require the State Registrar, with regard to identification of the parents, to modify the certificate of live birth to contain 2 lines that both read "Name of Parent" and contain, next to each parent's name, 3 checkboxes with the options of mother, father, and parent to describe the parent's relationship to the child. The bill would also require that all local registrars, deputy registrars, and subregistrars use the modified certificate of live birth, update all forms to incorporate the modification, and discard all forms in use before the modification. The bill would, for a birth occurring prior to January 1, 2016, authorize a parent to amend specified parental titles on the certificate of live birth to the parent relationship designation described above. The bill would require, if the birth mother is listed on the certificate of live birth, the birth mother's name, date of birth, and place of birth to be linked to her medical and social information, and would require that the linkage be confidential, as specified. The bill would make technical and conforming changes.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 334, Statutes of 2014.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 6209.).
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 4. Page 4500.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 17).
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 14. Page 4841.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (April 30).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB1951 | HTML |
| 02/19/14 - Introduced | |
| 03/17/14 - Amended Assembly | |
| 03/25/14 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/01/14 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/24/14 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/12/14 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/22/14 - Enrolled | |
| 09/15/14 - Chaptered |
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