See the Assembly Appropriations Committee Analysis which lays out-

creating the required database, the cost of notifying birth parents, and processing requests for original birth certificates will likely be in excess of $8 million costs for each of the first two years of the program. By the third year, costs will be in the range of $2 million per year.

and

approximately $4 million of the funding in each of the first two years would be related to necessary automation changes and the creation of the database

not only is this completely nuts, but they claim this model was built on

experience with a similar law in Oregon

A state whose primary financial costs had to do with defending the new law in court against those who were trying to get it struck down (Oregon being a national precedent and all.)

Basing any notion of CA’s projected costs on Oregon’s experiences just shows how deeply the lack of historical understanding pervades those working on AB 372.