PRINTER'S NO. 3885
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2580
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY COX, GILLEN, MILLARD, MULLERY, WHEELAND AND
ZIMMERMAN, JULY 30, 2018
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, JULY 30, 2018
AN ACT
Amending the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304, No.66), entitled "An
act providing for the administration of a statewide system of
vital statistics; prescribing the functions of the State
Department of Health, the State Advisory Health Board and
local registrars; imposing duties upon coroners,
prothonotaries, clerks of orphans' court, physicians,
midwives and other persons; requiring reports and
certificates for the registration of vital statistics;
regulating the disposition of dead bodies; limiting the
disclosure of records; prescribing the sufficiency of vital
statistics records as evidence; prescribing fees and
penalties; and revising and consolidating the laws relating
thereto," in records, further providing for fees for copies.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 807(a) of the act of June 29, 1953
(P.L.304, No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953, is
amended to read:
Section 807. Records: Fees for Copies.--(a) Except as
otherwise provided in this act, the Advisory Health Board shall
prescribe the fees to be paid by applicants for copies of vital
statistics records or parts thereof. The department may not
process a payment by an applicant until the requested copy of
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the vital statistics record or part thereof has been mailed to
the applicant. The department shall publish notice on the
department's publicly accessible Internet website that an
applicant's payment will not be processed until such time as the
requested copy of the vital statistics record or part thereof
has been mailed to the applicant and shall cause the same notice
to be published on the online VitalChek service.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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