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type: "Bill"
title: "County birth, death, and marriage records: blockchain."
description: "Existing law requires the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder, upon request and payment of the required fee, to supply to an applicant a certified copy of the record of a birth, fetal death, death, marriage, or marriage dissolution registered with the official. Existing law requires the certificate to contain certain information and to be printed on chemically sensitized security paper, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 786"
citation: "California SB 786 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County birth", "death", "and marriage records: blockchain."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2022-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09568dfc-e0a2-4503-887c-ab180a42a969"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786"
source_hash: "693b8209d53dcda09cea544d7f866f45b8183163ddd599c0f369d14ead08c553"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 786 (20212022) — County birth, death, and marriage records: blockchain.
Existing law requires the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder, upon request and payment of the required fee, to supply to an applicant a certified copy of the record of a birth, fetal death, death, marriage, or marriage dissolution registered with the official. Existing law requires the certificate to contain certain information and to be printed on chemically sensitized security paper, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786&version=20210SB78699INT)
2. **03/10/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786&version=20210SB78698AMD)
3. **05/11/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786&version=20210SB78697AMD)
4. **06/14/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786&version=20210SB78696AMD)
5. **06/29/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786&version=20210SB78695AMD)
6. **08/24/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786&version=20210SB78694AMD)
7. **09/28/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786&version=20210SB78692CHP)
8. **SB786** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786)
9. **09/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786&version=20210SB78693ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (pass) · lower
- SB 786 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Calderon — **790** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **40** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **150** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB786 Hertzberg Concurrence — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hertzberg — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
- **2021-03-03** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2021-05-10** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 1046.) (May 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-17** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1109.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-17** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-28** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-16** Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and P. & C.P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-03** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-04** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-08** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Reyes.
- **2022-08-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-24** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-30** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5325.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 704, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09568dfc-e0a2-4503-887c-ab180a42a969`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).