A bill in California would allow accent marks on birth certificates and other government documents for the first time since 1986.
The bill would impact California's large Latino population but also many other people with non-English names, such as Germans, Asians, Jewish people and others.The path to include accent marks in California records began five years ago, when Pablo Espinoza and hisnewborn son, Nicolás Agustín Espinoza Chaires.
Espinoza did a deep dive and found that county agencies stopped using diacritical marks in 1986, the same year voters made English the official language. He'd assumed it was because ofEspinoza, who works for Democratic House Speaker Anthony Rendon, and Chaires Espinoza, a lobbyist, pushed for a bill that passed in 2017 butby then-Gov. Jerry Brown , who said the bill was "a difficult and expensive proposition.
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