PRINTER'S NO. 1514
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1059
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY BOSCOLA AND McILHINNEY, MARCH 2, 2018
REFERRED TO HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, MARCH 2, 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 registration district administration, further
providing for local registrars' compensation.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 304(c) 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 304. Registration Districts: Local Registrars'
Compensation.--* * *
(c) (1) A local registrar may not be compensated in excess
of [sixty thousand dollars ($60,000)] eighty-five thousand
dollars ($85,000) in any one calendar year. Compensation shall
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include fees received from the department under subsection (a)
and retained from requesters under subsection (b).
(2) Upon reaching the limitation on compensation set forth
under clause (1) in any one calendar year, the local registrar
shall transmit all additional fees received under subsection (b)
to the department for deposit as follows:
(i) Three dollars ($3) shall be deposited in the Vital
Statistics Improvement Fund.
(ii) Three dollars ($3) shall be deposited in the General
Fund.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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