Bill Text: PA SB683 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for disclosure of records.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 14-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-10-12 - Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS [SB683 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB683-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 765
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 683 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY ROBBINS, PILEGGI, DINNIMAN, ERICKSON, GORDNER, STOUT, EARLL, KASUNIC, BAKER, PICCOLA, M. WHITE, ALLOWAY, FERLO, FOLMER, RAFFERTY, WARD AND YAW, MARCH 27, 2009
REFERRED TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE, MARCH 27, 2009
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," further providing for disclosure of records.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 801 of the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304,
No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953, is amended to
read:
Section 801. Records: Disclosure in General.--The vital
statistics records of the department and of local registrars
shall not be open to public inspection except as authorized by
the provisions of this act and the regulations of the Advisory
Health Board. Neither the department nor local registrars shall
issue copies of or disclose any vital statistics record or part
thereof created under the provisions of this or prior acts
except in compliance with the provisions of this act and the
regulations of the Advisory Health Board. When seventy-five (75)
years have elapsed after the date of birth or fifty (50) years
have elapsed after the date of death, the records, including any
application filed in connection therewith, of these events shall
become public records and information shall be made available in
accordance with regulations which shall provide for the
continued safekeeping of the records.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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