Vital records: fees: domestic violence.

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 is issued may be collected by the county clerks for deposit into these funds. Existing law authorizes the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and the Solano County Board of Supervisors, upon making certain findings and declarations, to authorize an increase in the fees for marriage licenses and confidential marriage licenses, up to a maximum increase of $2. Existing law authorizes those boards of supervisors, upon making certain findings and declarations, to authorize an increase in the fees for certified copies of certain vital records, up to a maximum increase of $2. Existing law authorizes those boards of supervisors to make further increases in those fees each year, as specified. Existing law requires these fees to be allocated for purposes relating to domestic violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution. This bill would, until January 1, 2021, provide the same authorization to increase fees for marriage licenses and certain vital records to the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, and would require those fees to be allocated for purposes relating to domestic violence prevention, intervention, and prosecution. The bill would require the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to submit to the Assembly and Senate Committees on Judiciary preliminary reports by July 1, 2019, and final reports by July 1, 2020, regarding the fee increase for marriage licenses, as specified. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Sonoma.