Bill Text: IN HB1413 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Interstate compact on citizen birth records.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-27 - Representative Neese added as coauthor [HB1413 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2011-HB1413-Introduced.html

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Introduced Version

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HOUSE BILL No. 1413

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL

Citations Affected: IC 16-37-5.

Synopsis: Interstate compact on citizen birth records. Enacts an interstate compact requiring the member states to make a distinction in the birth certificates, certifications of live birth, or other birth records issued in the member states, between persons born in the member states who are born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and persons who are not born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Provides that the compact does not go into effect until approved by the Congress under Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution.

Effective: July 1, 2011.

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Koch

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    January 20, 2011, read first time and referred to Statutory Committee on Interstate and International Cooperation.

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Introduced

First Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2011)

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HOUSE BILL No. 1413

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning health.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 16-37-5; (11)IN1413.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 16-37-5 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW CHAPTER TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]:
     Chapter 5. Interstate Compact on Citizen Birth Records
    Sec. 1. "Subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" has the meaning that it bears in Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, namely that the person is a child of at least one (1) parent who owes no allegiance to any foreign sovereignty, or a child without citizenship or nationality in any foreign country. For the purposes of this compact, a person who "owes no allegiance to any foreign sovereignty" is a United States citizen or national, or an immigrant accorded the privilege of residing permanently in the United States, or a person without citizenship or nationality in any foreign country.
    Sec. 2. The signatories to this compact shall make a distinction in the birth certificates, certifications of live birth, or other birth records issued in the signatory states, between persons born in the

signatory states who are born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and persons who are not born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Persons born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States shall be designated as "natural-born United States Citizens".
    Sec. 3. This compact does not take effect until Congress has given its consent under Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution of the United States.