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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY ROBBINS, PILEGGI, TARTAGLIONE, YAW, MENSCH, DINNIMAN, ALLOWAY, EICHELBERGER, BAKER, FONTANA, GORDNER, ERICKSON, KASUNIC, PICCOLA, RAFFERTY, EARLL AND BROWNE, FEBRUARY 1, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE, FEBRUARY 1, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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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 disclosure of records. |
14 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
15 | hereby enacts as follows: |
16 | Section 1. Section 801 of the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304, |
17 | No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953, is amended to |
18 | read: |
19 | Section 801. Records: Disclosure in General.--The vital |
20 | statistics records of the department and of local registrars |
21 | shall not be open to public inspection except as authorized by |
22 | the provisions of this act and the regulations of the Advisory |
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1 | Health Board. Neither the department nor local registrars shall |
2 | issue copies of or disclose any vital statistics record or part |
3 | thereof created under the provisions of this or prior acts |
4 | except in compliance with the provisions of this act and the |
5 | regulations of the Advisory Health Board. When one hundred (100) |
6 | years have elapsed after the date of birth or fifty (50) years |
7 | have elapsed after the date of death, the records shall become |
8 | public records. To ensure the proper safekeeping of original |
9 | birth records after one hundred (100) years and death records |
10 | after fifty (50) years the records shall be maintained by the |
11 | State Archives. |
12 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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