PRINTER'S NO. 725
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
740
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY PICKETT, CAUSER, FREEMAN, GALLOWAY, HILL-EVANS,
JAMES, KNOWLES, MILLARD, NEILSON, POLINCHOCK, RYAN, STRUZZI,
WHEELAND AND ZIMMERMAN, MARCH 3, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, MARCH 3, 2021
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 registration district administration, further
providing for local registrars' compensation; and making a
related repeal.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 304(c) of the act of June 29, 1953
(P.L.304, No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953, is
amended and the section is amended by adding a subsection to
read:
Section 304. Registration Districts: Local Registrars'
Compensation.--* * *
(b.1) For the issuance of certificates of death by a local
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