HB4466

The introduced bill covered only a county requesting a copy from the state registrar. The House committee substitute added qualifying child welfare boards as requesters and local registrars and county clerks as issuers. Those additions remained in the final law.

The House substitute, engrossed, Senate committee and enrolled operative texts match. The history and text index document the progression; the amendment index lists no amendments.

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

Counties and child welfare boards avoid paying for certified records needed in the covered cases. Children and families may benefit indirectly when caseworkers can obtain documentation without that expense. Issuing offices lose the associated fee revenue and still have to process requests.

The latest listed fiscal note cited a $22 certified-birth-record fee. It anticipated no significant state fiscal implication and assumed the Department of State Health Services could absorb costs, but said the revenue effect and local-government fiscal implications could not be determined because the number of qualifying requests was unknown. That is not a finding of zero revenue loss. The earlier introduced-version note discussed staffing needs if orders increased; it did not establish that the final law funded additional positions.