CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1930
Chapter 108, Laws of 1997
55th Legislature
1997 Regular Session
BIRTH CERTIFICATES--COPYING
RESTRICTIONS
EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97
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Passed by the House March 18,
1997
Yeas 96 Nays 2
 CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 9, 1997
Yeas 43 Nays 1
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CERTIFICATE
I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of
the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1930 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate
on the dates hereon set forth.
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BRAD OWEN
President of the Senate
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 TIMOTHY A. MARTIN
Chief Clerk
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Approved April 21, 1997 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 21, 1997 - 4:25 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington
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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1930
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Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 03/05/97.
Restricting copying of birth certificates.
AN
ACT Relating to birth certificates; and adding a new section to chapter 70.58
RCW.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 1. A
new section is added to chapter 70.58 RCW to read as follows:
No
person may prepare or issue any birth certificate that purports to be an
original, certified copy, or copy of a birth certificate except as authorized
in this chapter.
The
department shall adopt rules providing for the release of paper or electronic
copies of birth certificate records that include adequate standards for
security and confidentiality, assure the proper record is identified, and
prevent fraudulent use of records. All certified copies of birth certificates
in the state must be on paper and in a format provided and approved by the
department and must include security features to deter the alteration,
counterfeiting, duplication, or simulation without ready detection.
Federal,
state, and local governmental agencies may, upon request and with submission of
the appropriate fee, be furnished copies of birth certificates if the birth
certificate will be used for the agencies' official duties. The department may
enter into agreements with offices of vital statistics outside the state for
the transmission of copies of birth certificates to those offices when the
birth certificates relate to residents of those jurisdictions and receipt of
copies of birth certificates from those offices. The agreement must specify
the statistical and administrative purposes for which the birth certificates
may be used and must provide instructions for the proper retention and
disposition of the copies. Copies of birth certificates that are received by
the department from other offices of vital statistics outside the state must be
handled as provided under the agreements.
The
department may disclose information that may identify any person named in any
birth certificate record for research purposes as provided under chapter 42.48
RCW.
Passed the House March 18, 1997.
Passed the Senate April 9, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 21, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 21, 1997.