PRINTER'S NO. 440
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
424
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY BENNINGHOFF, BARRAR, DEASY, DeLUCA, A. HARRIS,
IRVIN, JAMES, KNOWLES, MENTZER, MILLARD, MOUL, MURT, NELSON,
O'BRIEN, PICKETT, STAATS, WATSON, ZIMMERMAN AND KINSEY,
FEBRUARY 10, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, FEBRUARY 10, 2017
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 death and fetal death registration, further
providing for information for certificates and for coroner
referrals.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Sections 502 and 503 of the act of June 29, 1953
(P.L.304, No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953, are
amended to read:
Section 502. Death and Fetal Death Registration: Information
for Certificates.--In preparing a certificate of death or fetal
death, the person in charge of interment or of removal of a dead
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