Vital records: fees: Stanislaus County.

Existing law requires the collection of fees for issuing marriage licenses and for providing certified copies of vital records, including marriage certificates, birth certificates, fetal death records, and death records. Existing law provides for the establishment of county domestic violence program special funds for the purpose of funding local domestic violence programs. Certain fees payable at the time a marriage license or a certified copy of any of the above vital records is issued may be collected by the county clerks for deposit into these funds. Additionally, existing law authorizes certain counties, upon making certain findings and declarations, to authorize an increase in fees for marriage licenses and confidential marriage licenses and for certified copies of certain vital records, as specified. Existing law requires the revenue from the fee increase to be allocated for purposes relating to domestic violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution. This bill would, until January 1, 2016, authorize the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors, upon making findings and declarations regarding the need for governmental oversight and coordination of the multiple agencies dealing with domestic violence, to authorize an increase in the fees for certified copies of marriage certificates, birth certificates, fetal death records, and death records up to a maximum of $2 per record and to annually adjust that amount for inflation. This bill would require the fees to be allocated by the county for purposes relating to domestic violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution. The bill would require the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors to submit a report to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Judiciary by July 1, 2014, regarding the above-described fee increase, as specified. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Stanislaus.