Bill > HSB576

This Study Bill expands protections for individuals participating in the address confidentiality program, which allows them to use a substitute address to keep their actual location private, often for safety reasons. Currently, assessors (officials responsible for property valuation) and their staff are required to remove a participant's name from public online documents upon request. This bill extends that requirement to recorders, who are officials responsible for maintaining public land records, and mandates that both assessors and recorders establish and maintain a system to handle these requests without charging a fee. The bill also removes the specific mention of "assessor's staff" from this requirement, focusing the responsibility on the assessor and the recorder themselves.