STATUTORY AUTHORITY - 1701

Government Code Section 14770 requires the director of the Department of General Services (DGS) to “. . . establish and staff an activity within the department to be known as the ”forms management center‟ for the orderly design, implementation and maintenance of a statewide forms management program.” This activity includes the study, development, coordination,

and initiation of state standard (STD) forms (forms of interagency and common administrative usage) which is required by Government Code Section 14771(a)(2).

Government Code Section 14771(a)(9) requires the director of the Department of General Services (DGS), through the Forms Management Center (FMC) to “…develop and promulgate rules and standards to implement the [State Forms Management Program].” These rules and standards include responsibilities of the FMC, State agencies, and departmental  forms coordinators (DFCs).

Government Code Section 14771(a)(14) requires the director of the Department of General Services (DGS), through the FMC, to “...provide notice to state agencies, forms management representatives, and departmental forms coordinators, that in the usual course of reviewing and revising all public-use forms that refer to or use the terms spouse, husband, wife, father, mother, marriage, or marital status, that appropriate references to state- registered domestic partner, parent, or state-registered domestic partnership are to be included.”

The term” agency” refers to appropriate state departments, offices, boards, commissions, etc.