Title: Death Certificates

Summary: Provides for service charge for recording of certain death certificates; requires each permanent certificate of death or fetal death, excluding any information that is confidential & exempt from public records requirements, to be recorded in public records of county in which it is issued.

Full Text:
An act relating to death certificates; amending s. 28.222, F.S.; providing for a service charge for the recording of certain death certificates; amending s. 382.008, F.S.; requiring each permanent certificate of death or fetal death, excluding any information that is confidential and exempt from public records requirements,to be recorded in the public records of the county in which it is issued; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subsection (3) of section 28.222, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 28.222 Clerk to be county recorder.-(3) The clerk of the circuit co urt shall record the following kinds of instruments presented to him or her for recording, upon payment of the service charges prescribed by law: (g) Certified copies of death certificates authorized for issuance by the Department of Health which exclude the information that is confidential under s. 382.008, and certified copies of death certificates issued by another state whether or not they exclude the information described as confidential in s. 382.008. For each death certificate automatically recorde das required by s. 382.008, the clerk shall receive from the board of county commissioners or other governing body of the county HB 2013 the service charge prescribed by law for the recording. Section 2. Subsection (7) is added to section 382.008, Florida St atutes, to read: 382.008 Death and fetal death registration.-(7) Each permanent certificate of death or fetal death, excluding any information that is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1), shall, upon issuance, be recorded by the local registrar in the public records of the county in which it is issued as provided in chapter 28. Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.