Bill Text: MS SB2742 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

Mississippi Senate Bill 2742

Introduced

Bill Title: Birth certificate fees; allow to be spent on maternal, infant and children's healthcare programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-02-04 - Died In Committee [SB2742 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2025-SB2742-Introduced.html

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2025 Regular Session

To: Public Health and Welfare; Appropriations

By: Senator(s) Boyd

Senate Bill 2742

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-57-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO ALLOW FEES COLLECTED FROM ISSUANCE OF BIRTH CERTIFICATES TO BE USED FOR PROGRAMS DEDICATED TO MATERNAL, INFANT AND CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 41-57-11, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

41-57-11. (1) Each local registrar shall be paid the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) for each birth and each death certificate properly made out, and in the manner and on the form required by the State Board of Health. Such sum shall be paid by the board of supervisors of the county in which the births and deaths occurred, upon certification made monthly to the board of supervisors by the state registrar.

However, any local registrar shall receive only Fifty Cents (50�) for each birth and each death certificate sent in to the Bureau of Vital Statistics improperly completed or sent in at a later time than that fixed by the regulations of the State Board of Health.

(2) In addition to any fees established and collected by the State Board of Health for the issuance of original and copies of birth certificates, there shall be charged a fee of One Dollar ($1.00) for each original and each copy of a birth certificate. This additional fee shall either be deposited into the Mississippi Children's Trust Fund created by Section 93-21-305 and, if so deposited, shall be used only as set forth in Sections 93-21-301 through 93-21-311. If this fee is not deposited into the Mississippi Children's Trust Fund, it shall be deposited, with the approval of the Department of Child Protection Services, in some other like fund dedicated to maternal, infant and children's healthcare. This additional fee shall not be added to birth certificates furnished free as provided in Sections 35-3-9 and 41-57-25.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2025.