PRINTER'S NO. 3801
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2652
Session of
2024
INTRODUCED BY GUENST, BURGOS, SCOTT, BRENNAN, PROBST, O'MARA,
HILL-EVANS, PASHINSKI, GIRAL, McNEILL, SCHLOSSBERG, FREEMAN,
HOHENSTEIN, M. MACKENZIE, KUZMA, MENTZER, GALLAGHER, CONKLIN,
SANCHEZ, CERRATO, GREEN, KENYATTA AND PARKER,
OCTOBER 23, 2024
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, OCTOBER 23, 2024
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304, No.66), entitled "An
2 act providing for the administration of a statewide system of
3 vital statistics; prescribing the functions of the State
4 Department of Health, the State Advisory Health Board and
5 local registrars; imposing duties upon coroners,
6 prothonotaries, clerks of orphans' court, physicians,
7 midwives and other persons; requiring reports and
8 certificates for the registration of vital statistics;
9 regulating the disposition of dead bodies; limiting the
10 disclosure of records; prescribing the sufficiency of vital
11 statistics records as evidence; prescribing fees and
12 penalties; and revising and consolidating the laws relating
13 thereto," in records, further providing for fees for copies.
14 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
15 hereby enacts as follows:
16 Section 1. Section 807(c) of the act of June 29, 1953
17 (P.L.304, No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953, is
18 amended to read:
19 Section 807. Records: Fees for Copies.--* * *
20 (c) No fee shall be charged for certified copies of records
21 or parts thereof furnished to members of the armed forces of the
22 United States, including a reserve component or National Guard,
1 and their dependents during their term of active service and
2 after their death in service or [honorable] discharge therefrom
3 under conditions other than dishonorable.
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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