HB522 Alabama 2011 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jeremy Oden Public Service Commission President

Republican

Co-Sponsors

Allen FarleyMark TugglePaul BeckmanMike JonesKurt WallaceGregory CanfieldTodd GreesonElwyn ThomasJuandalynn Givan

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Vital statistics, stillborn child, parent listed on report of fetal death authorized to request Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth from State Registrar, procedures for issuance, State Board of Health to administer

Description

Under existing law, a report of a fetal death is required to be filed with the Office of Vital Statistics within five days after a stillbirth if the fetus is beyond the 20th week of uterogestation. The report is for statistical purposes only and the State Registrar destroys the reports after data from the reports are transferred to the database of the Center for Death Statistics.

This bill would authorize a parent listed on a report of fetal death to request a Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth from the State Registrar and would provide the procedures for the issuance of the certificate.

This bill would require the person filing the report of fetal death to notify the parents of the right to request a Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth, as well as who to contact to obtain the certificate.

This bill would prescribe the information to be contained in the certificate and authorize the Department of Public Health to adopt rules relating to the information contained in the Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth.

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Subjects

Health Department