Bill Text: HI SB2611 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Vital Statistics
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-04-26 - (H) Act 055, on 4/24/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 271). [SB2611 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2611-Amended.html
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO VITAL STATISTICS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that, under existing law, the real property assessment division of each county does not receive regular notice of residents' deaths. Consequently, the members of a deceased person's household can continue to receive a deceased property owner's county real property tax exemption and unfairly benefit from an unreported death. The legislature further finds that if the department of health were to promptly notify each county's real property assessment division each month of deaths that were recorded, the counties would be able to identify deceased persons and remove them from the county real property tax records. The legislature finds that this communication would prevent surviving household members from claiming the deceased person's real property tax exemption and would ensure a more equitable distribution of taxes among real property owners. The legislature further finds that this would also prevent subsequent owners of a deceased person's real property from being penalized for inadvertently receiving a real property tax exemption meant for the deceased person.
The purpose of this Act is to promote the accuracy of real property assessments by requiring the department of health, within six weeks of the last day of each month and at no charge, to provide each county's real property assessment division with a list of all persons age eighteen and older whose deaths were recorded by the department during the previous month.
SECTION 2. Section 338-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§338-4 Deaths reported to county
clerks[.] and real property assessment divisions.
The department of health [shall], within six weeks after the end
of each month, shall deliver, or forward by mail, at no charge,
to the county clerk and to the real property assessment division of each
county a list of the names of all citizens of voting age or over whose deaths
have been recorded in the department during each month. The list shall set
forth [such] the portion of the information contained in the
death record of each citizen whose death is so reported as will be of
assistance to the county clerk and county real property assessment division
in identification[.], and if available, shall include the last four
digits of the deceased's social security number, date of birth, date of death,
and last known address."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2020.
Report Title:
Vital Statistics; Reporting
Description:
Requires DOH, within six weeks of the last day of each month and at no charge, to provide each county's real property assessment division with a list of all persons age 18 and older whose deaths were recorded by DOH during the previous month. Effective July 1, 2020. (SB2611 SD2)
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