Bill Text: CA SB1477 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Confidential records: name changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-13 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. [SB1477 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB1477-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1477	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 6206.5 of the Government Code, relating to
confidential records.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1477, as introduced, Anderson. Confidential records: domestic
violence victims.
   Existing law authorizes victims of domestic violence or stalking
and reproductive health care providers, employees, and volunteers, as
defined, to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary
of State for the purposes of enabling state and local agencies to
respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program
participant's residence address contained in any public record.
Existing law specifies reasons for which the Secretary of State is
authorized or required to cancel a program participant's
certification, including the participant changing his or her name
without notifying the Secretary of State or using false information
on the application. Existing law prohibits the Secretary of State
from making a program participant's address publicly available,
except in specified circumstances, including when the participant's
program certification has been canceled.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
   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 6206.5 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   6206.5.  (a) The Secretary of State may cancel a program
participant's certification if there is a change in the residential
address from the one listed on the application, unless the program
participant provides the Secretary of State with at least seven days'
prior notice of the change of address.
   (b) The Secretary of State may cancel a program participant's
certification if the program participant changes his or her name from
the one listed in the application and fails to notify the Secretary
of State of the name change within seven days of the change.
   (c) The Secretary of State may cancel  a program participant's
 certification  of a program participant  if
mail forwarded by the secretary to the program participant's address
is returned as nondeliverable.
   (d) The Secretary of State shall cancel  the 
certification of a program participant who applies using false
information.
   (e) Except as provided in subdivision (f) of Section 6206.7 or
subdivision (c) of Section 6208,  any  records or
documents pertaining to a program participant shall be held
confidential for a period of three years after termination of
certification.
   (f) All records or documents pertaining to a program participant
shall be retained for a period of three years after termination of
certification and then destroyed, except for change of name records,
which shall be retained permanently.