CHAPTER 168 SENATE BILL No. 343 An  Act concerning the department of health and environment; relating to vital statistics;
establishing the vital statistics maintenance fee fund; amending K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 65-
2418 and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:

      New Section  1. There is hereby created the vital statistics mainte-
nance fee fund in the state treasury which shall be administered by the
secretary of health and environment. All expenditures from the vital sta-
tistics maintenance fee fund shall be to help finance the implementation
of and to maintain the vital statistics integrated information system. All
expenditures from the vital statistics maintenance fee fund shall be made
in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director of
accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the sec-
retary of health and environment or by the secretary's designee.

      Sec.  2. K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 65-2418 is hereby amended to read as
follows: 65-2418. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the
secretary shall fix and charge the fees, if any, to be paid for certified copies
of certificates or for search of the files or records when no certified copy
is made. Fees for certified copies of certificates shall be fixed by rules
and regulations of the secretary except that the fee for the first copy of a
birth or death certificate shall include a $3 surcharge and the fee for each
additional copy of the same birth or death certificate requested at the
same time shall include a $1 surcharge. The secretary shall not charge
any fee for a certified copy of a certificate or for a search of the files or
records if the certificate or search is requested by a person who exhibits
correspondence from the United States veterans administration or the
Kansas commission on veterans' affairs which indicates that the person is
applying for benefits from the United States veterans administration and
that such person needs the requested information to obtain such benefits,
except that, for a second or subsequent certified copy of a certificate or
search of the files requested by the person, the usual fee shall be charged.
The secretary may provide by rules and regulations for exemptions from
such fees.

      (b) Subject to K.S.A. 65-2420 and amendments thereto, the national
office of vital statistics may be furnished copies or data it requires for
national statistics. The state shall be reimbursed for the cost of furnishing
the data. The data shall not be used for other than statistical purposes by
the national office of vital statistics unless so authorized by the state reg-
istrar of vital statistics.

      (c)  (1) The secretary shall remit all moneys received by or for the
secretary from fees, charges or penalties to the state treasurer at least
monthly. Upon receipt of any such remittance, other than remittances
for fees for birth certificates, the state treasurer shall deposit the entire
amount thereof in the state treasury and the same shall be credited to
the state general fund.

      (2) Upon receipt of any such remittance of a fee for a birth certificate,
$3 of each such fee for the first copy of a birth certificate and $1 of each
such fee for each additional copy of the same birth certificate requested
at the same time shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall deposit
the entire amount of each such remittance in the state treasury and credit
it to the permanent families account of the family and children investment
fund created by K.S.A. 38-1808, and amendments thereto. Upon receipt
of any such remittance of a fee for a death certificate, $3 of each such
fee for the first copy of a death certificate and $1 of each such fee for
each additional copy of the same death certificate requested at the same
time shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall deposit annually
the entire amount of each such remittance in the state treasury and credit
it to the district coroners fund created by K.S.A. 22a-245 and amend-
ments thereto. The balance of the money received for a fee for a birth
certificate shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall deposit the
entire amount of each such remittance in the state treasury and the same
shall be credited to the state general fund.

      (d) Upon receipt of any fee for a certified copy of a birth, death, fetal
death, marriage or divorce certificate, $1 of each such fee shall be remitted
to the state treasurer who shall deposit the entire amount of each such
remittance in the state treasury and credit it to the vital statistics main-
tenance fee fund created by section 1, and amendments thereto. For the
purposes of the vital statistics maintenance fee fund, the secretary of
health and environment shall adopt rules and regulations providing for
an increase of $1 in the fees charged by the state registrar for providing
a certified copy of a birth, death, fetal death, marriage or divorce certif-
icate.

      New Sec.  3. The activities of the secretary of health and environment
in implementing and maintaining the vital statistics integrated informa-
tion system in the department of health and environment and in acquiring
financing for acquisition of equipment, technology, software, related cap-
ital improvements for remodeling or renovating and operating expendi-
tures for the implementation and maintenance of the vital statistics in-
tegrated information system in the department of health and environment
are hereby approved for the department of health and environment for
the purposes of subsection (b) of K.S.A. 74-8905 and amendments thereto
and the authorization of one or more series of revenue bonds by the
Kansas development finance authority in accordance with that statute.

      Sec.  4. K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 65-2418 is hereby repealed.

      Sec.  5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.

Approved May 9, 2001.
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