10103449D
SENATE BILL NO. 438
Offered January 13, 2010
Prefiled January 13, 2010
A BILL to amend and reenact § 32.1-273 of the Code of
Virginia, relating to vital records; fees.
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Patron-- Northam
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Referred to Committee on Education and Health
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 32.1-273 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§32.1-273. Fees for certified copies, searches of files,
etc.; disposition.
A. The Board shall prescribe thea fee,
not to exceed eight dollars, of
twenty dollars for a certified copy of a vital record or
for a search of the files or records when no copy is made and may establish a
reasonable fee schedule related to its cost for information or other data
provided for research, statistical or administrative purposes. The Board may assess an additional fee of nine
dollars plus costs associated with on-line identity verification and any
requested expedited mailing for an expedited record search. Whenever
any veteran or his survivor requires a certified copy of a vital record to
obtain service-connected benefits, one copy of such record shall be provided
directly to the Veterans Administration upon their request. No charge shall be
imposed upon a veteran or his survivor for the submission of vital records
directly to the Veterans Administration.
B. Fees collected under this section by the State Registrar
shall be transmitted to the Comptroller for deposit. Four Eight dollars of each fee collected by the State
Registrar shall be deposited by the Comptroller into the special funds of the
Division of Vital Records.
Eight dollars of each fee collected by the State
Registrar shall be deposited by the Comptroller into the special
funds of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Two dollars of each fee collected by the State
Registrar shall be deposited into the special funds of the Department of Health
and shall be used to fund health care services. Two
dollars of each fee collected by the State Registrar shall be deposited by the
Comptroller into the Vital Statistics Automation Fund established pursuant to §
32.1-273.1 for so long as shall be authorized. Four dollars of each fee shall be credited to a special fund to be appropriated
by the General Assembly, as it deems necessary, for the purpose of carrying out
the provisions of this chapter. When the Vital Statistics
Automation System is completed, no further deposits into the fund shall be made
and all fees collected under this section not credited to the special fund
created by this subsection shall be deposited into the general fund of the state
treasury.
C. Fees collected under this section by county and city
registrars shall be deposited in the general fund of the county or city except
that counties or cities operating health departments pursuant to the provisions
of §32.1-31 shall forward all such fees to the Department for deposit in the
cooperative local health services fund.
D. Fees assessed against local departments of social services
for furnished copies of vital records as needed to administer public assistance
and social services programs, as defined in §63.2-100, shall be payable on a
quarterly basis.
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