SB1190:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start
Amended
IN
Senate
April 18, 2022
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1190
Introduced by Senator Hertzberg
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February 17, 2022 |
An act to add Section 11546.10 to the Government Code, relating to state government.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1190, as amended, Hertzberg.
Department of Technology: California Trust Framework and pilot project. Framework.
Existing law establishes the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency and charges it with specified duties, including approval and oversight of information technology projects by state agencies.
On or before January 1, 2024, this bill would require the Department of Technology to create a California Trust Framework to provide industry standards and best practices regarding the issuance of credentials to verify information about a person or a legal entity. The bill would require the California Trust Framework to be designed, to the greatest extent possible, to be interoperable with other government trust and governance frameworks for verifiable credentials.
The bill would also require the Department of Technology, on or before July 1, 2023, in partnership with the Department of
Education, to develop and oversee a 5-year pilot project using verifiable credentials for high school transcripts. The bill would require the pilot project to allow high schools that participate in the pilot project to use verifiable credentials for student transcripts and to enter into agreements with community colleges to accept the use of those transcripts by students.
Digest Key
Vote:
MAJORITY
Appropriation:
NO
Fiscal Committee:
YES
Local Program:
NO
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 11546.10 is added to the Government Code, to read:11546.10.
(a) On or before January 1, 2024, the Department of Technology shall create a California Trust Framework to provide industry standards and best practices regarding the issuance of credentials to verify information about a person or a legal entity. The California Trust Framework shall be designed, to the greatest extent possible, to be interoperable with other government trust and governance frameworks for verifiable credentials.(b) In creating the California Trust Framework, the Department of Technology shall include in the framework all of the following requirements:
(1) Design principles.
(2) Purpose.
(3) Governing body.
(4) Accreditation processes, including interoperability test processes.
(5) Technical standards.
(6) Roles and functions of participants.
(7) Authoritative trust anchors.
(8) Onboarding and assurance processes.
(9) Enforceability mechanisms.
(c)On or before July 1, 2023, the Department of Technology, in partnership with the Department of Education, shall also develop and oversee a five-year pilot project using verifiable credentials for high school transcripts. The pilot project
shall allow high schools that participate in the pilot project to use verifiable credentials for student transcripts and to enter into agreements with community colleges to accept the use of those transcripts by students.
(d)
(c) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Verifiable credential” means a cryptographically secure set of information, created in accordance with open standards, which comply with and protect all existing privacy protections and is a
user-controlled, portable means of sharing information in a manner that can be authenticated through publicly available services.
(2) “Verifiable credentials data model” means a universal data format that allows an entity to express information about another entity. It provides a mechanism to express credentials in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, interoperable, and machine verifiable.