Statewide Forms Management Program.

Existing law requires the Director of General Services to establish and staff an activity within the department, known as the "forms management center," for the orderly design, implementation, and maintenance of a statewide forms management program. Existing law requires the director to provide notice to state agencies, forms management representatives, and departmental forms coordinators, that appropriate references to state-registered domestic partner, parent, or state-registered domestic partnership are to be included in revising all public-use forms, as specified. This bill would require the director to provide notice to state agencies, forms management representatives, and departmental forms coordinators, that in the usual course of reviewing and revising all public-use forms that collect demographic data, that appropriate voluntary self-identification information shall be included in the forms that relate to sexual orientation, domestic partnership status, and gender identity, as specified.