PRINTER'S NO. 3620
No. 2683 Session of 1982
INTRODUCED BY KENNEDY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1982
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND WELFARE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1982
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304, No.66), entitled "An
2 act providing for the administration of a statewide system of
3 vital statistics; prescribing the functions of the State
4 Department of Health, the State Advisory Health Board and
5 local registrars; imposing duties upon coroners,
6 prothonotaries, clerks of orphans' court, physicians,
7 midwives and other persons; requiring reports and
8 certificates for the registration of vital statistics;
9 regulating the disposition of dead bodies; limiting the
10 disclosure of records; prescribing the sufficiency of vital
11 statistics records as evidence; prescribing fees and
12 penalties; and revising and consolidating the laws relating
13 thereto," further providing for the reporting of deaths to
14 the county registration commissions.
15 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
16 hereby enacts as follows:
17 Section 1. Section 801.1, act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304,
18 No.66), known as the "Vital Statistics Law of 1953," added
19 August 18, 1961 (P.L.1011, No.452), is amended to read:
20 Section 801.1. Records: Reports to County Registration
21 Commissions.--The department shall report monthly in writing to
22 the registration commission of each county the deaths of
23 residents of such counties, except residents less than [twenty]
1 eighteen years of age, for the preceding month. Said report
2 shall contain the full name of the decedent, [his] the
3 decedent's last address, the date of [his] decedent's birth if
4 available, and the date of [his] decedent's death. The county
5 registration commission shall, within thirty days of receipt of
6 this report, forward the information to the county board of
7 elections which shall remove the decedent's name from the
8 official list of eligible electors.
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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