Steven S. Choi, Ph.D.
- Republican
Author
Existing law establishes the Department of Child Support Services within the California Health and Human Services Agency and requires the department to administer all services and perform all functions necessary to establish, collect, and distribute child support. Existing law requires a person responsible for registering live births to provide a voluntary declaration of parentage and specified written materials to a woman giving birth and to attempt to provide to the person identified by the woman giving birth as either the only possible genetic parent other than the woman who gave birth or the intended parent of a child conceived through assisted reproduction. Existing law also requires the department to develop a form to execute the voluntary declaration of parentage. This bill would require the department to make the above-described form available as both a paper and an electronic version, as specified. Existing law requires a voluntary declaration of parentage to be in a record signed by the woman who gave birth to the child and by either the only possible genetic parent other than the woman who gave birth or the intended parent of a child conceived through assisted reproduction, and requires the signatures to be attested by a notary or witnessed. This bill would authorize a signatory or witness to sign a voluntary declaration of parentage using an electronic signature if certain requirements are met, including that the electronic signature is unique to the person using it and it is capable of independent verification. The bill would delay the operation of the above-described provisions until January 1, 2024.
Vetoed by Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.).
Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4977.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Ordered to special consent calendar.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11).
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 31). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4370.)
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 6).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB1926 | HTML |
| 02/09/22 - Introduced | |
| 03/11/22 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/16/22 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/26/22 - Enrolled |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/18/22- Assembly Judiciary | |
| 04/04/22- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/27/22- Senate Judiciary | |
| 06/24/22- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/13/22- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/23/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/19/22- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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