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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | February 9, 2015 12:06 PM |
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| From: | Representative Robert Freeman |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Increase in fee for local registrar to issue death certificates |
| In the near future, I will be introducing legislation to increase the fee for local registrars to issue death certificates from $6.00 to $8.00. For each fee received by the local registrar, $4 would be retained by the local registrar and $4 would be transmitted to the Department of Health for the Vital Statistics Improvement Account. This fee has only been increased once since it was enacted in 1953. Since then, the Legislature has significantly increased the responsibilities of the registrars, which has resulted in additional costs for supplies and paperwork. The registrars do not receive any reimbursement for those additional costs. Additionally, under the current law there is a $60,000 limitation on the compensation in any one calendar year. Once this cap is met, the local registrar must transfer all additional fees to the Department of Health which would deposit $4 to the Vital Statistics Improvement Fund and $4 to the General Fund. My proposal would increase this cap to $75,000. Please join me in co-sponsoring this legislation. If you have any questions regarding this legislation, please contact Danielle in my office by e-mail at dbrown@pahouse.net or by telephone at 783-3815. |
Introduced as HB724