Government Code Section 6254.5

Compiled January, 2012

Our review of the annotated history reveals the following legislative history (every “c.” below represents a separate legislative bill):

Added: 1981, c. 968
Amended:
•  1983, c. 101: made nonsubstantive changes to maintain this code.
•  1987, c. 1453: in the introductory paragraph, deleted “for the purposes of this section, before a disclosure of an otherwise exempt public record by a state or local agency to a federal agency, is made, the federal agency shall agree in writing to comply with this chapter.”; and added subdivisions (e) and (f) relating to disclosures to governmental agencies and records relating to financial institutions.
•  1993, c. 469: added subdivision (g) concerning records relating to any person that is subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Corporations.
•  1995, c. 480: at the end of subdivision (b), relating to other legal proceedings, added “or as otherwise required by law”; and added subdivision (h) relating to specified records made by the Superintendent of Banks, the Savings and Loan Commissioner, or the Commissioner of Corporations.
•  1996, c. 1064: in subdivision (h), substituted “Commissioner of Financial Institutions under Section •  1909, 8009, or 18396 of the Financial Code” for “Superintendent of Banks under Section 1909 of the Financial Code or by the Savings and Loan Commissioner under Section 8009 of the Financial Code or by the Commissioner of Corporations under Section 18396 of the Financial Code”.
•  1999, c. 525: established the Department of Managed Care, and amended provisions of this section to conform to the establishment of that department and the transfer of responsibilities to it.
•  2000, c. 857: in subdivision (i) changed statutory references from the Department of Managed Care to the Department of Managed Health Care.
•  2008, c. 501: in subdivision (h), substituted “280, 282” for “1909”.

Nine bills affected this section.                          

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