Florida Senate - 2013                                     SB 462
       
       
       
       By Senator Thompson
       
       
       
       
       12-00709-13                                            2013462__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to death certificates; amending s.
    3         28.222, F.S.; providing for a service charge for the
    4         recording of certain death certificates; amending s.
    5         382.008, F.S.; requiring each permanent certificate of
    6         death or fetal death, excluding any information that
    7         is confidential and exempt from public records
    8         requirements, to be recorded in the public records of
    9         the county in which it is issued; providing an
   10         effective date.
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   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subsection (3) of section
   15  28.222, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   16         28.222 Clerk to be county recorder.—
   17         (3) The clerk of the circuit court shall record the
   18  following kinds of instruments presented to him or her for
   19  recording, upon payment of the service charges prescribed by
   20  law:
   21         (g) Certified copies of death certificates authorized for
   22  issuance by the Department of Health which exclude the
   23  information that is confidential under s. 382.008, and certified
   24  copies of death certificates issued by another state whether or
   25  not they exclude the information described as confidential in s.
   26  382.008. For each death certificate automatically recorded as
   27  required by s. 382.008, the clerk shall receive from the board
   28  of county commissioners or other governing body of the county
   29  the service charge prescribed by law for the recording.
   30         Section 2. Subsection (7) is added to section 382.008,
   31  Florida Statutes, to read:
   32         382.008 Death and fetal death registration.—
   33         (7) Each permanent certificate of death or fetal death,
   34  excluding any information that is confidential and exempt from
   35  s. 119.07(1), shall, upon issuance, be recorded by the local
   36  registrar in the public records of the county in which it is
   37  issued as provided in chapter 28.
   38         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.