Senate Ways and Means Committee Public Hearing Closing Vital Records Bill 5332

by Charles Hansen

At 3:30 today was the public hearing in the Senate Ways and Means committee. TVW Archive here: Bill number 5332 starts at 1:20. Only one person testifying in favor of the bill, a coroner that wants the increased fee for certified certificates. The Health department issues 500,000 certificates a year so local governments will get about $1,000,000 more in income from their $2 increase in fees. The other $3 goes to the state for their state crime lab. They still say genealogist have agreed to the informational death certificates without a cause of death.

I don’t really care about the increase in the fee for a certified copy, nor the removal of the social security number if the certificate has that, I want a true copy of the record I am looking for.

2 comments on “Senate Ways and Means Committee Public Hearing Closing Vital Records Bill 5332”

  1. Greg Nordlund says:
    February 20, 2019 at 7:02 pm

    Thanks for tracking this bill. These records should be much easier to access without certification.

  2. Barbara Johnson says:
    February 21, 2019 at 1:02 pm

    So they really think genealogists don’t want an original document? Good Grief! And they want to charge us more? What Chutzpah.

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