PRINTER'S NO. 2498
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1963
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY PIELLI, WEBSTER, D. MILLER, HILL-EVANS, McNEILL,
GUENST, SHUSTERMAN, MENTZER, SANCHEZ, VENKAT, CERRATO,
PARKER, WATRO, KINSEY, MALAGARI, ROZZI, GALLAGHER, HARKINS,
BOYD, PASHINSKI, DONAHUE, DEASY, STEELE, HANBIDGE, KENYATTA,
GIRAL, BOROWSKI, STEHR, PROBST, HADDOCK, NEILSON, SCOTT,
DALEY, JOZWIAK, KHAN, DELLOSO AND GREEN, JANUARY 31, 2024
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, JANUARY 31, 2024
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(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 807. Records: Fees for Copies.--* * *
(c) No fee shall be charged for certified copies of records
or parts thereof furnished [members] to:
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(1) a member of the armed forces of the United States [and
their dependents] during [their] the member's term of active
service and after [their death in service or] the member's
honorable discharge therefrom[.]; and
(2) the surviving spouse and dependents of a member of the
armed forces of the United States during a term of active
service and after the member's death, whether or not in service,
or the member's honorable discharge therefrom.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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