Re: California can now issue vital records using Verifiable credentials

Great work Kaliya.

-Brent

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 11:56 AM Harrison <harrison@spokeo.com> wrote:

> 👏🎉
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 9:37 AM Kerri Lemoie <klemoie@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Amazing!! Great work all!
>>
>> K.
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2022, at 11:51 AM, Kaliya Identity Woman <
>> kaliya@identitywoman.net> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you to all the companies that contributed to support it happening.
>>
>> Mattr
>> Block
>> IOHK
>> Lumedic
>> Symsoft Solutions
>> IDMachines
>>
>> Our lobbyist Jamie Minor of Niemela Pappas &. Associates
>> and Ally Medina who headed the Blockchain Advocacy Coalition for most of
>> the time and believed in our vision to get some legislation specifically
>> about verifiable credentials passed.
>>
>> It goes to show that when a small group gets together and focuses along
>> with the right knowledge to navigate the political system good things can
>> happen.
>>
>> I hope we can learn from this and work together in other jurisdictions.
>>
>> - Kaliya
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 8:25 AM Shawn Butterfield <
>> sbutterfield@salesforce.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Congrats, Kaliya! This is exciting :)
>>>
>>> Butters @ Salesforce | Software Architect
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 8:24 AM Daniel Goldscheider <
>>> daniel@goldscheider.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Awesome work Kaliya!
>>>>
>>>> On 29 Sep 2022, at 16:21, Daniel Buchner <dbuchner@squareup.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> Wow, this is awesome, thank you for everything you did to help make
>>>> this happen, Kaliya.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 8:18 AM Kaliya Identity Woman <
>>>> kaliya@identitywoman.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> HI Folks,
>>>>>  I wanted to report good news from the Verifiable Credentials Policy
>>>>> Committee that I have chaired for the two years here in California (it sits
>>>>> under the Blockchain Advocacy Coalition).
>>>>>
>>>>>  SB 786 was signed by the Governor yesterday so it is now law.
>>>>> It amends the vital records act to say counties can issue vital
>>>>> records ad verifiable credentials.
>>>>>  You can see the text here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB786#93ENR
>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully other states will take note and follow suit.
>>>>>  -Kaliya
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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