BILL · 2001–02 SESSION

SB 5976: Grandparents/birth records

Providing a procedure for maintaining grandparents' information with birth records.

Summary

The Department of Health (DOH) must develop by rule a procedure for storing grandparents' information, either on a new section of the birth certificate or in a database only. For the purposes of this act, grandparents are defined as those persons listed as parents on the birth certificates of the parents.

From the Senate Bill Report (SB 5976), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to maintaining grandparents' information with birth records;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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