Senate Bill No. 140-Senators Augustine and Mathews
February 18, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Human Resources and Facilities
SUMMARY--Enacts provisions governing reporting to state registrar of vital statistics of marital status of mother at time of giving birth. (BDR 40-731)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: Yes.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to vital statistics; enacting provisions governing the reporting to the state registrar of vital statistics of the marital status of the mother at the time of giving birth; providing that such information must not be made a part of any public record; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 Chapter 440 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
1 A person legally responsible for registering a birth shall attempt to determine the marital status of the mother by asking her to declare her marital status. If the mother refuses to declare her marital status, the person legally responsible for registering the birth shall use specified factors to determine it. The state registrar shall establish such factors.
2. Within 10 days after the birth, the person legally responsible for registering the birth shall transmit the information determined pursuant to subsection 1 to the county health officer of the county in which the birth occurred. On the 10th day of each month, the county health officer shall transmit the information received by him pursuant to this section during the previous month to the state registrar in the manner prescribed by the state registrar.
3. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, such information determined or reported pursuant to this section is confidential and must not be transcribed on the birth certificate or be made a part of any public record. The state registrar may disseminate the information reported to him pursuant to this section in the form of a statistical abstract that does not include any identifying information concerning the mothers.
Sec. 2 The provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 354.599 do not apply to any additional expenses of a local government that are related to the provisions of this act.
Sec. 3 This act becomes effective on July 1, 1997.