PRINTER'S NO. 2660
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1912
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY ZIMMERMAN, READSHAW, JAMES, RYAN, OWLETT,
CALTAGIRONE, PICKETT, NEILSON, CIRESI, MOUL, HILL-EVANS,
SCHLEGEL CULVER, GREGORY, BERNSTINE, McNEILL, DUSH, SAYLOR,
BURGOS AND JOZWIAK, OCTOBER 11, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, OCTOBER 11, 2019
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 records and 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 to:
(1) members of the armed forces of the United States and
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their dependents during their term of active service and after
their death in service or honorable discharge therefrom[.]; or
(2) county coroners, if requested in connection with their
official duties regarding the interment of an unclaimed dead
body.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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