Bill Text: MI HB4153 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Records; birth; definition of certain individuals eligible for different fees and procedure to obtain birth certificate; provide for. Amends sec. 2803 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.2803). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4152'19
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2020-03-04 - Assigned Pa 54'20 With Immediate Effect [HB4153 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4153-Chaptered.html
Act No. 54
Public Acts of 2020
Approved by the Governor
March 3, 2020
Filed with the Secretary of State
March 3, 2020
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 1, 2020
state of michigan
100th Legislature
Regular session of 2020
Introduced by Reps. Guerra, Steven Johnson, Love, Howell, Brann, Clemente, LaFave and Cynthia Johnson
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4153
AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” by amending section 2803 (MCL 333.2803), as amended by 2012 PA 499.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 2803. (1) “Abortion” means that term as defined in section 17015.
(2) “Allowable individual” means an individual who is the subject of a birth record that is only available through the office of the state registrar and who meets any of the following:
(a) He or she was born in the jurisdiction of the office of the local registrar where the certified copy of the birth record is being sought.
(b) If the individual was adopted, his or her adoption was ordered by a probate court that is located in the jurisdiction of the office of the local registrar where the certified copy of the birth record is being sought.
(3) “Dead body” means a human body or fetus, or a part of a dead human body or fetus, in a condition from which it may reasonably be concluded that death has occurred.
(4) “Fetal death” means the death of a fetus that has completed at least 20 weeks of gestation or weighs at least 400 grams. Fetal death includes a stillbirth. The definition must conform in all other respects as closely as possible to the definition recommended by the federal agency responsible for vital statistics.
(5) “Fetal remains” means a dead fetus or part of a dead fetus that has completed at least 10 weeks of gestation or has reached the stage of development that, upon visual inspection of the fetus or part of the fetus, the head, torso, or extremities appear to be supported by skeletal or cartilaginous structures. Fetal remains do not include the umbilical cord or placenta.
(6) “File” means to present a certificate, report, or other record to the local registrar for registration by the state registrar.
(7) “Final disposition” means the burial, cremation, interment, or other legal disposition of a dead body or fetal remains.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 4152 of the 100th Legislature is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
