Bill Text: CA SB357 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 357 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Death: notification: consumer credit reporting agencies.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB357 Detail]

Download: California-2019-SB357-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 357

Introduced by Senator Borgeas

February 19, 2019

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

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 357, as introduced, 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 reporercase">YES Local Program: NO

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

SECTION 1.

Section 102779 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

102779.

(a) The department shall provide notification, as described in subdivision (b), within 14 days of a death registration with the electronic death registration system implemented pursuant to Section 102791.

(b) The department shall provide notice of an individual’s death to credit reporting agencies that compile and maintain files on consumers on a nationwide basis. The department shall furnish the necessary information in its possession to properly identify the individual.