Bill Text: AZ HB2222 | 2013 | Fifty-first Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Death certificates; fee waiver
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-23 - Referred to House RHS Committee [HB2222 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2013-HB2222-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: death certificates; fee waiver |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-first Legislature First Regular Session 2013
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HB 2222 |
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Introduced by Representatives Alston, Cardenas, Gonzales: Mendez
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AN ACT
Amending section 36-341, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to vital statistics.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 36-341, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
36-341. Fees received by state and local registrars
A. The director of the department shall establish the fees to be charged for searches, copies of registered certificates, certified copies of registered certificates, amending registered certificates and correcting certificates that are processed by the department. The director may establish a surcharge to be assessed on any local registrar who obtains access to the department's vital records automation system. A local registrar may establish the local registrar's own fees to be charged for searches, copies of registered certificates, certified copies of registered certificates, amending registered certificates and correcting certificates as determined necessary by the local entity. The director shall waive the fee for a certified copy of a death certificate on a showing by the person requesting the certificate of economic hardship as prescribed by the director by rule. The fee waiver shall be for not more than five copies.
B. In addition to fees collected pursuant to subsection A of this section, the state registrar shall assess an additional one dollar surcharge on fees for all certified copies of registered birth certificates. The state registrar shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35‑146 and 35‑147, all monies received from the surcharge in the confidential intermediary and fiduciary fund established by section 8‑135.
C. The state registrar shall keep a true and accurate account of all fees collected by the state registrar under this chapter and shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35‑146 and 35‑147:
1. Eighty-five per cent of the first four million dollars collected each fiscal year in the vital records electronic systems fund established by section 36‑341.01 and the remaining fifteen per cent of the first four million dollars collected each fiscal year in the state general fund.
2. Forty per cent of the amount collected in excess of four million dollars each fiscal year in the vital records electronic systems fund established by section 36‑341.01 and the remaining sixty per cent in the state general fund.
D. A local registrar shall keep a true and accurate account of all fees collected by the local registrar under this chapter and shall deposit them with the county treasurer to be credited to a special registration and statistical revenue account of the health department fund.
E. In addition to fees collected pursuant to subsection A of this section, the department shall assess an additional one dollar surcharge on fees for all certified copies of registered death certificates. The department shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35‑146 and 35‑147, monies received from the surcharge in the child fatality review fund established by section 36‑3504.
F. The state and local registrars may exempt an agency as defined in section 41‑1001 from any fee required by this section, section 8‑135 or section 36‑3504. END_STATUTE
