Bill Text: MI HB4413 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Records: vital records; requirement for issuance of live birth records to any applicant; modify. Amends sec. 2882 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.2882).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-09 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 04/09/2019 [HB4413 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-HB4413-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4413

 

 

March 21, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Guerra, Brixie, Gay-Dagnogo, Kuppa, Hope and Clemente and referred to the Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors.

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

by amending section 2882 (MCL 333.2882), as amended by 2002 PA 691.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 2882. (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 2890,

 

upon on receipt of a written request and payment of the prescribed

 

fee, the state registrar or local registrar shall issue the

 

appropriate 1 of the following:

 

     (a) A certified copy of a live birth record, an affidavit of

 

parentage filed after June 1, 1997, or a record of stillbirth filed

 

after June 1, 2003 to 1 of the following:

 

     (i) The individual who is the subject of the record.

 

     (ii) A parent named in the record.

     (iii) An heir, a legal representative, or a legal guardian of

 

the individual who is the subject of the record.

 

     (iv) A court of competent jurisdiction.

 

     (b) If the live birth record is 100 130 or more years old, a

 

certified copy of the live birth record to any applicant.

 

     (c) A certified copy of a death record, including the cause of

 

death, to any applicant.

 

     (d) A certified copy of a marriage or divorce record to any

 

applicant, except as provided by rule.

 

     (e) A certified copy of a fetal death record that was filed

 

before September 30, 1978, to any applicant.

 

     (2) Upon On receipt of a written request of an adult who has

 

been adopted and payment of the prescribed fee, the state registrar

 

shall issue to that individual a copy of his or her original

 

certificate of live birth, if the written request identifies the

 

name of the adult adoptee and is accompanied by a copy of a central

 

adoption registry clearance reply form that was completed by the

 

family independence agency department and delivered to that

 

individual as required by under section 68(9) of the Michigan

 

adoption code, chapter X of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288,

 

MCL 710.68.

 

     (3) Upon On receipt of a written request of a confidential

 

intermediary appointed under section 68b of the Michigan adoption

 

code, chapter X of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL

 

710.68b, presentation of a certified copy of the order of

 

appointment, identification of the name of the adult adoptee, and

 

payment of the required fee, the state registrar shall issue to the

confidential intermediary a copy of the original certificate of

 

live birth of the adult adoptee on whose behalf the intermediary

 

was appointed.

 

     (4) A copy of the original certificate of live birth provided

 

under subsection (2) or (3) shall must have the following phrase

 

marked on the face of the copy: "This document is a copy of a

 

sealed record and is not the active birth certificate of the

 

individual whose name appears on this document".