Bill Text: PA HB361 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for the English language as the official language of the Commonwealth.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 43-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-01 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB361 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB361-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 342
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 361 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY ROBBINS, PILEGGI, TARTAGLIONE, YAW, MENSCH, DINNIMAN, ALLOWAY, EICHELBERGER, BAKER, FONTANA, GORDNER, ERICKSON, KASUNIC, PICCOLA, RAFFERTY, EARLL AND BROWNE, FEBRUARY 1, 2011
REFERRED TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE, FEBRUARY 1, 2011
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 one hundred (100)
years have elapsed after the date of birth or fifty (50) years
have elapsed after the date of death, the records shall become
public records. To ensure the proper safekeeping of original
birth records after one hundred (100) years and death records
after fifty (50) years the records shall be maintained by the
State Archives.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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