FINAL BILL REPORT

SB 6556

                                   C 40 L 88

BYSenators Wojahn, Kiskaddon, Stratton and Johnson

Specifying that fees for birth certificates suitable for display be used for the children's trust fund.

Senate Committee on Children & Family Services

House Committe on Human Services

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

In 1987, the State Registrar was permitted to issue "heirloom" birth certificates at the price of $25.  The money collected from these certificates was to be passed on to the Washington State Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect to be used for the purposes of the children's trust fund.  This fund is intended to finance child abuse and neglect prevention programs.

A section of the statute on vital statistics requires $3 of the fee imposed for the issuance of each certified copy of a record to be held by the State Treasurer in the death investigations account.

SUMMARY:

"Heirloom" birth certificates are exempt from those certified copies subject to the $3 charge intended to fund the death investigations account.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      Senate    49     0

      House 98   0

EFFECTIVE:June 9, 1988