FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 937

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE LEVIN.

Read 1st time March 8, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 193.245, RSMo 2000, relating to vital statistics, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 193.245, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 193.245, to read as follows:

193.245. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit inspection of, or to disclose information contained in, vital records or to copy or issue a copy of all or part of any such record except as authorized by this law and by regulation or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction or in the following situations:

(1) A listing of persons who are born or who die on a particular date may be disclosed upon request, but no information from the record other than the name and the date of such birth or death shall be disclosed;

(2) The department may authorize the disclosure of information contained in vital records for legitimate research purposes;

(3) To a qualified applicant as provided in section 193.255;

(4) The department shall provide microfilms of all vital records that are seventy-two years old or older, and microfilms of indexes to such records to the state archives for study by the public.


Missouri House of Representatives