California Civil Code

§ 1799.1a

CIV § 1799.1a Effective Jan 1, 2001Div. 3 · Title 1.82 · Part 4 · Ch. 2

Statute text

(a)No person, including an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, or joint venture, or any employee or agent thereof, shall disclose information obtained from a federal or state income tax return or any information obtained from a tax schedule submitted with the return by a consumer in connection with a financial or other business-related transaction unless the disclosure is within any of the following:

(1)Consented to in writing by the consumer in a separate document that states to whom the disclosure will be made and how the information will be used. If the consumer agrees, this separate consent document may be in the form of an electronic record, executed by an electronic signature as provided by Title 2.5 (commencing with Section 1633.1) of Part 2 of Division 3 of the Civil Code.

(2)Authorized or required by state or federal law.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1084, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2001. Note: Subd. (d) is inoperative; AB 2246 was enacted as Ch. 1039, Stats. 2000.