AB 2789: Marriage: change of name.

Session Year: 2023-2024
House: Assembly

Current Status:

Failed

(2024-05-16: In committee: Held under submission.)

Introduced

First Committee Review

First Chamber

Second Committee Review

Second Chamber

Enacted

Version:

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to prepare and publish a brochure containing specified information for distribution to applicants for marriage licenses and persons who qualify as domestic partners that includes, among other things, information concerning options for changing a name upon solemnization of marriage.

This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to create and maintain an internet website that contains instructional information regarding how a person can change their name after they get married and a list of all agencies that need to be notified of a name change that occurs after a marriage.

Existing law requires the parties, before entering a marriage or declaring a marriage, as specified, to first obtain a marriage license from the county clerk. Existing law requires the attorney-in-fact to appear before the county clerk to obtain a marriage license on behalf of the party who is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who is stationed overseas and serving in a conflict of war and is unable to appear for the licensure and solemnization of the marriage.This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.

Discussed in Hearing

6MIN

Apr 23, 2024

Assembly Standing Committee on Health

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Bill Author

Greg Wallis

Bill Co-Author(s):

Laurie Davies

AB 2789: Marriage: change of name.

Current Status:

Assembly Standing Committee on Health

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