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Bill	Certified copies of marriage, birth, and death certificates: electronic application.	Under existing law, a certified copy of a birth, death, marriage, or military service record may only be supplied by the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder to an authorized person, as defined, who submits a written, faxed, or digitized image request accompanied by a notarized statement sworn under penalty of perjury that the applicant is an authorized person.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2636	California AB 2636 (20152016)	bill	Certified copies of marriage birth and death certificates: electronic application.	enacted	Linder	8	27	9	2016-02-19	2016-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/57e40425-9ac6-4582-9f6a-5229beb52d5c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2636	fc47b9c7ea7beca00c05aa17b3e454799023ba29b198c43d8691297f011fe297	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2636 (20152016) — Certified copies of marriage, birth, and death certificates: electronic application.

Under existing law, a certified copy of a birth, death, marriage, or military service record may only be supplied by the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder to an authorized person, as defined, who submits a written, faxed, or digitized image request accompanied by a notarized statement sworn under penalty of perjury that the applicant is an authorized person.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/23/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2636 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2636 Linder By Hertzberg — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2636 LINDER Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2636 LINDER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Linder — primary (person)
• Brough — coauthor (person)
• Chang — coauthor (person)
• Chávez — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Dababneh — author (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Kim — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
• Obernolte — coauthor (person)
• Olsen — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-10 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2016-03-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5041.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5163.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6212.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 527, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57e40425-9ac6-4582-9f6a-5229beb52d5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).