Bill Text: NJ A4785 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate for child born in New Jersey to active duty service member.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-11-16 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee [A4785 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A4785-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman TROY SINGLETON
District 7 (Burlington)
Assemblywoman L. GRACE SPENCER
District 29 (Essex)
Assemblyman RALPH R. CAPUTO
District 28 (Essex)
Assemblyman ADAM J. TALIAFERRO
District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)
SYNOPSIS
Requires issuance of one free copy of birth certificate for child born in New Jersey to active duty service member.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning birth certificates and amending R.S.26:8-63.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. R.S.26:8-63 is amended to read as follows:
26:8-63. The State registrar shall:
a. Furnish a certification or certified copy of a birth, marriage, civil union, domestic partnership, fetal death, or death certificate without fee in the prosecution of any claim for public pension or for military or naval enlistment purposes; [and]
b. Furnish the United States Public Health Service without expense to the State, microfilm or photocopy images of birth, marriage, civil union, domestic partnership, fetal death, and death certificates without payment of the fees prescribed in this article; [and]
c. Furnish a certified transcript of any entry in the records of the New Jersey State census without fee for certification in the prosecution of any claim for public pension, for military or naval enlistment purposes; [and]
d. Furnish without fee upon request for administrative use by any city, State, or federal agency a certified transcript of any New Jersey State census entry, or a certification or certified copy of a birth, death, fetal death, marriage, civil union or domestic partnership certificate; [and]
e. Furnish without fee upon request a certified copy of a veteran's death certificate to the veteran's legal representative, the executor or administrator of the veteran's estate, or to a family member authorized to obtain a copy of the death certificate pursuant to subsection a. of R.S.26:8-62. No more than one copy of a veteran's death certificate may be provided without fee pursuant to this subsection; all other copies of the death certificate shall be subject to the statutory fee; and
f. Upon receipt of a birth certificate of a living child born in this State to a parent who is an active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States or an active duty member of the National Guard, send without fee one certified copy of the birth certificate to the child's custodial parent.
As used in this [subsection] section, "fee" includes, but is not limited to, any search, certification, processing, authentication, standard shipping, or other fees that would ordinarily be assessed to furnish a certified copy of a [death] certificate or transcript.
(cf: P.L.2014, c.87, s.1)
2. The Commissioner of Health shall, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate the provisions of this act.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires that, when a child is born in New Jersey to a parent who is an active duty service member, the State registrar is to provide the child's custodial parent with one free copy of the child's birth certificate.
Birth certificates are completed by the child's parents and the health care professional attending the birth and filed with the local registrar, who in turn transmits the certificate, along with all other vital records received in the past month, to the State registrar.
Under the bill, upon receiving a birth certificate for a child born in New Jersey to a parent who is an active duty service member, the State Registrar will be required to send a free certified copy of the birth certificate to the child's custodial parent. The bill will apply to children born to parents who are active duty members of both the Armed Forces of the United States and the National Guard, and it will not matter for the purposes of the bill which of the child's parents is the active duty service member.
