CHAPTER NUMBER: 654
File Code: Public Health
- Sponsored By:
-
Senator Della (By Request) and Senators Blount, Collins,
Conway, Craig, Dyson, Frosh, Hollinger, McCabe, Pinsky, Sfikas, and
Stoltzfus
- Entitled:
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Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Vital Records
Repealing a requirement that the Secretary of Health and Mental
Hygiene send a copy of an original birth certificate to a county
registrar under specified circumstances; authorizing a local health
department to access electronically from the Department a certified or
abridged copy of a registered birth record and to provide that copy to
a specified person on request; altering the fee that the Department
collects for copies of specified certificates or for a specified
report and to dispose of those fees in a specified manner; etc.
Senate Action
- 3/9
- First Reading Senate Rules
- 3/11
- Re-referred Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/12
- Hearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/23
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/24
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/26
- Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- 4/13
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/21
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 654
House Action
- 3/26
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 4/1
- Hearing 4/2 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/13
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 4/9
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/10
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (130-3)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator George W. Della, Jr., District 47
- Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
- Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator David R. Craig, District 34
- Senator Roy P. Dyson, District 29
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Christopher J. McCabe, District 14
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMPUTERS
- COUNTIES -see also- CHARTERED COUNTIES; CODE COUNTIES
- ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION
- FEES -see also- DEVELOPMENT FEES AND TAXES
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- REGISTERS OF WILLS
- REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
- VITAL RECORDS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Health - General
- (
4-204 ,
4-205 ,
4-217
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 404717/1 (PDF) Offered on: March 24, 1998 at:
12:26 p.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 259583/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 13, 1998 at:
5:49 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 26, 1998: Third Reading Passed (45-0)
- April 13, 1998: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- House
- April 10, 1998: Third Reading Passed (130-3)
