Bill Text: CA SB372 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Department of Consumer Affairs: licensee and registrant records: name and gender changes.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 225, Statutes of 2023. [SB372 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB372-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 372

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Introduced by Senator Menjivar
(Coauthor: Senator Wiener)
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Pellerin)

February 09, 2023

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An act to add Section 27.5 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 372, as introduced, Menjivar. Department of Consumer Affairs: licensee and registrant records: name and gender changes.

Existing law establishes in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency the Department of Consumer Affairs. Under existing law, the department is composed of various boards, bureaus, committees, and commissions. Existing law establishes various boards within the department for the licensure, regulation, and discipline of various professions and vocations. Existing law defines “board” for purposes of the Business and Professions Code to include bureau, commission, committee, department, division, examining committee, program, and agency, unless otherwise expressly provided.

This bill would require a board to update a licensee or registrant’s records, including records contained within an online license verification system, to include the licensee or registrant’s updated legal name or gender if the board receives government-issued documentation, as described, from the licensee or registrant demonstrating that the licensee or registrant’s legal name or gender has been changed. The bill would require the board, if requested by a licensee or registrant, to reissue specified documents conferred upon, or issued to, the licensee or registrant with their updated legal name or gender. The bill would prohibit a board from charging a higher fee for reissuing a document with a corrected or updated legal name or gender than the fee it charges for reissuing a document with other corrected or updated information.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 27.5 is added to the Business and Professions Code, to read:

27.5.

 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, if a board receives government-issued documentation, as described in subdivision (b), from a licensee or registrant demonstrating that the licensee or registrant’s legal name or gender has been changed, the board shall update their records, including any records contained within an online license verification system, to include the updated legal name or gender. If requested by the licensee or registrant, the board shall reissue any documents conferred upon the licensee or registrant with the licensee or registrant’s updated legal name or gender.

(2) A board shall not charge a higher fee for reissuing a document with a corrected or updated legal name or gender than the fee it charges for reissuing a document with other corrected or updated information.

(b)  The documentation of a licensee or registrant sufficient to demonstrate a legal name or gender change includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:

(1) State-issued driver’s license or identification card.

(2) Birth certificate.

(3) Passport.

(4) Social security card.

(5) Court order indicating a name change or a gender change.

(c) This section does not require a board to modify records that the licensee or registrant has not requested for modification or reissuance.