FINAL BILL REPORT

SHB 1264

                                   C 99 L 90

BYHouse Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Nealey, Haugen, Ferguson, McLean, Horn, Cooper and Moyer)

Changing provisions relating to local registrars.

House Committe on Local Government

Senate Committee on Governmental Operations

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

Local registrars of vital documents (i.e., local health officers) are authorized to sign fully completed birth certificates and to issue burial-transit permits for fully completed death and fetal death certificates.  The certificates become official when such records of certificates are made pursuant to requirements established by the state registrar, the secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services.

On or before the 10th day of each month, local registrars are required to forward to the state registrar the original of these certificates that were so recorded in the preceding month.  The health officer of a first-class city may require two original certificates to be filed and may retain one of the duplicate original certificates as the city record.

Certified copies of these certificates may be issued by the local registrar while the original is in the registrar's possession. Certified copies of these certificates are made by the state registrar.

SUMMARY:

Local registrars shall transmit all original death and fetal death certificates to the state registrar no less than 30 days after the certificates are filed, nor more than 60 days after the certificates are filed.  On or before the 15th day and the last day of each month, each local registrar must transmit all original birth certificates that have been filed on or before the preceding day that have not been transmitted previously.  When the state registrar requests the transfer of a certificate, the local registrar shall transfer the record immediately.

Local registrars in counties in which a first-class city or a city with a population of 27,000 or more is located may retain an exact copy of the original birth, death, or fetal death certificate and make certificated copies of the exact copy.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      House 92   0

      Senate    46     0

EFFECTIVE:June 7, 1990