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Div. 102.DIVISION 102. VITAL RECORDS AND HEALTH STATISTICS
Part 1.PART 1. VITAL RECORDS
Ch. 3.CHAPTER 3. Live Birth Registration
Art. 2.ARTICLE 2. Content of Certificate of Live Birth
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(a)
(1)In addition to the items of information collected pursuant to Section 102425, the State Registrar shall instruct all local registrars that have automated birth registration to electronically capture the information specified in paragraph (2), and other necessary items as the State Registrar may designate, in an electronic file. The information shall not be transcribed onto the actual hard copy of the certificate of live birth.
(2)The information required pursuant to paragraph (1) shall consist of the following:
(A)The mother’s marital status.
(B)The mother’s mailing address. The mother may designate an
alternate address at her discretion.
(C)Information about whether the birth mother received food for herself during the pregnancy pursuant to the Women, Infants, and Childr
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(a)
(1)
In addition to the items of information collected pursuant to Section 102425, the State Registrar shall instruct all local registrars that have automated birth registration to electronically capture the information specified in paragraph (2), and other necessary items as the State Registrar may designate, in an electronic file. The information shall not be transcribed onto the actual hard copy of the certificate of live birth.
(2)
The information required pursuant to paragraph (1) shall consist of the following:
(A)
The mother’s marital status.
(B)
The mother’s mailing address. The mother may designate an
alternate address at her discretion.
(C)
Information about whether the birth mother received food for herself during the pregnancy pursuant to the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program.
(D)
The Activity, Pulse, Grimace, Appearance, and Respiration (Apgar) scores of 5 and 10 minutes.
(E)
The birth mother’s prepregnancy weight, weight at delivery, and height.
(F)
Information about smoking before and during pregnancy, including the average number of cigarettes or packs of cigarettes smoked during the three months before pregnancy and the average number of cigarettes or packs of cigarettes smoked during each trimester of pregnancy.
(G)
The planned place of birth and whether it was a
hospital, freestanding birthing center, home delivery, clinic or physician’s office, or other specified place.
(H)
The email address and mobile telephone numbers of the intended parents, if voluntarily provided by the parents, to be used for the California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program pursuant to Article 19.5 (commencing with Section 69996) of Chapter 2 of Part 42 of Division 5 of Title 3 of the Education Code.
(I)
Assigned sex at birth of the child.
(3)
Subparagraphs (B) to (F), inclusive, of paragraph (2) shall become operative on January 1, 2007.
(b)
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, information collected pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) shall not under any circumstances be disclosed or
available to anyone, except for both of the following:
(1)
The State Department of Public Health and the Department of Child Support Services for demographic and statistical analysis. The Department of Child Support Services shall keep information received pursuant to this subdivision confidential in accordance with Section 17212 of the Family Code.
(2)
The federal government, without any personal identifying information, for demographic and statistical analysis.
(c)
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, information collected pursuant subparagraph (H) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), if voluntarily provided by the parents, shall not under any circumstances be disclosed or available to anyone except for the Scholarshare Investment Board created pursuant to Section 69984 of the Education Code. The information
shall be collected as long as the California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program is operational and actively opening new KIDS accounts, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 69996.2 of the Education Code, for eligible children.