CA SB1190

Department of Technology must create a California Trust Framework by January 1, 2024 to establish industry standards and best practices for issuing credentials to verify information about persons or legal entities.

California Trust Framework must be designed to be interoperable with other government trust and governance frameworks for verifiable credentials to the greatest extent possible.

Framework must include design principles, purpose, governing body, accreditation processes, technical standards, roles and functions of participants, authoritative trust anchors, onboarding and assurance processes, and enforceability mechanisms.

"Verifiable credential" is defined as a cryptographically secure set of information created under open standards that allows user-controlled, portable sharing of information that can be authenticated through publicly available services.

Pilot project provisions requiring Department of Technology and Department of Education to develop a five-year pilot project using verifiable credentials for high school transcripts have been removed from the bill.