2. For a certificate of death record, any of the persons specified under s. 69.18 (4) (a) 1g. to 6. or an individual who is authorized in writing by one of the persons.
(c) Except as provided under sub. (3), until 50 years after a decedent's date of death, the state registrar and a local registrar may not permit inspection of or disclose information contained in the portion under s. 69.18 (1m) (b) 2. and 3. of the certificate of death record to anyone except to a person specified under sub. (1), or to a direct descendent of the decedent.
(3) (b) 4. The information is from a birth certificate record which indicates that the registrant has a congenital disability and is submitted to the department of public instruction.
(c) Notwithstanding sub. (2), a local registrar may disclose information on a birth certificate record or issue a copy of the certificate record to a local health department, as defined in s. 250.01 (4), for health or demographic research or a public health program if the local health department pays the copying costs and if the birth of the registrant occurred within the boundaries of the political subdivision served by the local health department or the registrant is a resident of the political subdivision. The local health department may not disclose any information from any copy which it receives under this paragraph to any person and shall destroy the copy no later than one year after receipt.
(e) (intro.) Public use indexes of certificates of birth, death, marriage, divorce, domestic partnership and
, termination of domestic partnership, or annulment, or marriage documents records that are filed in the system of vital statistics records at the state or local level are accessible only by inspection at the office of the state registrar or of a local registrar and may not be copied or reproduced except as follows:
1. a. Certificate of birth Birth record index information may be copied or reproduced for the public only after 100 years have elapsed from the year in which the birth occurred. No information in the index that has been impounded under s. 69.15 may be released.
b. Subdivision 1. a. does not apply to certificate of birth record indexes of events that occurred before October 1, 1907.
2. Indexes of record of death, marriage, divorce, domestic partnership and, termination of domestic partnership, or annulment records may be copied or reproduced for the public after 24 months have elapsed from the year in which the event occurred.
(4) Under procedures that are promulgated by rule, the state registrar and every local registrar shall protect vital records from mutilation, alteration, theft, or fraudulent use and shall protect the privacy rights of registrants and their families by strictly controlling direct access to any vital record filed or registered in paper form.
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92. 69.21 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (1) (a) 1. Except as provided under subd. 2., the state registrar and any local registrar shall issue a certified copy of a vital record to any person if the person submits a request for a certified copy of a vital record of a specified registrant in writing and, if the vital record is enabled for statewide issuance in the state registrar's electronic system for of vital
record issuance records, to the extent permitted under s. 69.21 (1) (b) 3., and if the request is accompanied by the fee required under s. 69.22. If a vital record is not enabled for statewide issuance in the state registrar's electronic system for of vital record issuance records, the registrar responsible for filing or registration of the vital record may issue a certified copy under this section.
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93. 69.21 (1) (a) 2. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (1) (a) 2. (intro.) The state registrar and any local registrar may not issue any certified copy under subd. 1. of any of the following:
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94. 69.21 (1) (a) 2. b. of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (1) (a) 2. b. Any information of the part of a certificate of birth, death, or divorce or, annulment, or a marriage document record, the disclosure of which is limited under s. 69.20 (2) (a) and (c), unless the requester is the subject of the information or, for a decedent, unless the requester is specified in s. 69.20 (2) (a) 2.
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95. 69.21 (1) (a) 2. c. of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (1) (a) 2. c. The birth certificate record of a person if no surname has been entered on the birth certificate record for the person under s. 69.14 (1) (f).
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96. 69.21 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (1) (b) 2. Any copy of a birth certificate record issued under par. (a) shall be in a long or short form, as specified by the person submitting the request under par. (a). The long form shall include the name, sex, date and place of birth and parent's surnames of the registrant, the file date and the file number. The short form may not include any information about the parents of the registrant. The state registrar shall issue the short form for any registrant born of unmarried parents if the registrant's certificate record was not prepared under s. 69.15 (3) (b), unless the person requesting the copy requests the long form.
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97. 69.21 (1) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (1) (b) 3. A local registrar may issue a copy of a record of birth, death, divorce, or termination of domestic partnership certificate, a , marriage document, or a declaration of domestic partnership under par. (a) through the state registrar's electronic system
for of vital record issuance records if it is enabled.
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98. 69.21 (1) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (1) (b) 4. A copy of a death certificate record issued under par. (a) for a death that occurred before January 1, 2003 September 1, 2013, shall include the name, sex, date and place of death, age or birth date, cause and manner of death, and social security number, if any, of the decedent, and the file number and the file date of the certificate record, except that a requester may, upon request, obtain a copy that does not include the cause of death.
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99. 69.21 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (1) (b) 5. A copy of a death certificate record issued under par. (a) for a death that occurs after December 31, 2002 August 31, 2013, shall be on a form that contains only fact-of-death information specified in s. 69.18 (1m) (a), except that a requester may, upon request, obtain a form that contains extended fact-of-death information specified in s. 69.18 (1m) (b).
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100. 69.21 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (2) (a) The state registrar or local registrar shall issue an uncertified copy of the vital record of one or more registrants if the subject of the vital record is an event occurring after September 30, 1907. The requirements of ss. 69.15 (6) (b) and 69.20 (3) (b) for disclosing information under s. 69.20 (1) and (2) shall apply to issuance under this paragraph of any copy of a vital record containing such information. Any uncertified copy issued under this paragraph shall have on its face a notice that it is uncertified.
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101. 69.21 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (3) Amendments. Any copy of a vital record issued under this section shall show all amendments or changes made on the record since it was filed, the date and authority of the amendment or change unless a certificate record was issued for the registrant under s. 69.14 (1) (h) or 69.15 (2), (3) or (4) (b).
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102. 69.21 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.21 (4) (b) A person with a direct and tangible interest in a vital record withheld by the state registrar under par. (a) may petition the circuit court of the county in which the event which is the subject of the vital record is shown on the original record to have occurred. The petition shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the original vital record. In issuing the certified copy, the state registrar shall mark the copy to indicate that the copy is for use by the court in making its determination under this paragraph. If the court finds that the petitioner has proven that the information on the vital record is valid, the clerk of court shall report the court's determination to the state registrar on a form in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, who shall issue the certified copy.
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103. 69.22 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.22 (1) (c) Twenty dollars for issuing an uncertified copy of a birth certificate record or a certified copy of a birth certificate record, and $3 for issuing any additional certified or uncertified copy of the same birth certificate record issued at the same time.
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104. 69.22 (1) (cm) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.22 (1) (cm) Ten dollars for issuing one certified copy of a certificate of birth record resulting in stillbirth and $3 for any additional certified copy of the same certificate record issued at the same time.
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105. 69.22 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.22 (1m) The state registrar and any local registrar acting under this subchapter shall, for each copy of a birth certificate record for which a fee under sub. (1) (c) is charged that is issued during a calendar quarter, forward to the secretary of administration for deposit in the appropriation accounts under s. 20.433 (1) (g) and (h) $7 by the 15th day of the first month following the end of the calendar quarter.
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106. 69.22 (4) of the statutes is repealed.
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107. 69.22 (5) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
69.22 (5) (a) 3. Making any change in a birth
certificate record under s. 69.15 (3).
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108. 69.22 (5) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
69.22 (5) (b) 2. The filing of a birth certificate record under s. 69.14 (2) (b) 5. The fee under this subdivision includes the search for the birth certificate
record and the first copy of the certificate except that the state registrar shall add to the $20 fee, $5.
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109. 69.23 of the statutes is repealed.
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110. 69.24 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.24 (1) (b) Willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a birth or death certificate
record under s. 69.09, 69.10, 69.14 or 69.18, in an application for an amendment to a birth or death certificate record under s. 69.11 or 69.12 or in a request for a certified copy of a birth certificate record under s. 69.21.
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111. 69.24 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.24 (1) (c) Willfully and knowingly supplies any false information with the intent that the information be used in the preparation of a birth or death certificate record or the amendment of a birth or death certificate record.
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112. 69.24 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.24 (1) (d) Counterfeits or, without authorization, makes, alters or amends any birth or death certificate record required by this subchapter or a certified copy of such certificate record.
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113. 69.24 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.24 (1) (e) Mutilates or destroys an original birth or death certificate record filed under this subchapter.
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114. 69.24 (1) (h) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.24 (1) (h) As a public officer or public employee, furnishes or processes a birth or death certificate
record or a certified copy of a birth or death certificate
record with the knowledge or intention that the certificate
record or copy will be used for the purpose of deception.
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115. 69.24 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.24 (2) (a) Willfully and knowingly commits any of the actions prohibited under sub. (1) in relation to a records of marriage document, divorce report, declaration of domestic partnership, or certificate of termination of domestic partnership.
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116. 69.24 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
69.24 (2) (b) Willfully and knowingly refuses to provide information required under this subchapter for any part of a birth certificate record which is not designated as the part for statistical or medical and statistical use or for a death certificate record.
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117. 100.545 (1) (h) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
100.545 (1) (h) 2. A certified or official copy of a birth certificate record issued by the entity authorized to issue the birth certificate record.
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118. 214.37 (4) (k) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
214.37 (4) (k) 2. A certified copy of the depositor's death certificate record. If the savings bank already possesses a certified copy of the depositor's death certificate record, this subdivision does not apply.
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119. 215.26 (8) (e) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
215.26 (8) (e) 2. Submits a certified copy of the saver's death certificate record. If the association already possesses a certified copy of the saver's death certificate record, this subdivision does not apply.
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120. 343.125 (2) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
343.125 (2) (a) 2. A birth certificate record bearing an official seal or other mark of authentication and issued by a state, county, or municipality within the United States or by a territory or possession of the United States.
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121. 343.14 (2r) of the statutes is amended to read:
343.14 (2r) Notwithstanding sub. (2j), the department may, upon request, provide to the department of health services any applicant information maintained by the department of transportation and identified in sub. (2), including providing electronic access to the information, for the sole purpose of verification by the department of health services of birth certificate
record information.
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122. 343.50 (8) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
343.50 (8) (c) 2. Notwithstanding par. (b) and s. 343.14 (2j), the department may, upon request, provide to the department of health services any applicant information maintained by the department of transportation and identified in s. 343.14 (2), including providing electronic access to the information, for the sole purpose of verification by the department of health services of birth certificate record information.
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123. 445.13 (1m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
445.13 (1m) (a) Mail or present a death certificate record within 10 days after receipt from the person responsible for completing the medical certification under s. 69.18 (2).
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124. 445.13 (1m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
445.13 (1m) (b) Within any period of 180 days, mail or present 6 or more death certificates records within the 2-day time limit under s. 69.18 (1) (bm).
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125. 711.05 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
711.05 (1) (b) A certified copy of the death
certificate record of the user.
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126. 711.12 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
711.12 (7) (a) If the user is deceased, a certified copy of the death certificate record of the user.
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127. 765.002 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
765.002 (4) In this chapter, “marriage document” is that document record consisting of the marriage license, the marriage certificate and the confidential information collected for statistical purposes only.
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128. 765.09 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
765.09 (3) (b) Each applicant for a marriage license shall exhibit to the clerk a certified copy of a birth certificate record, and each applicant shall submit a copy of any judgment or death certificate record affecting the applicant's marital status. If any applicable birth certificate record, death certificate
record or judgment is unobtainable, other satisfactory documentary proof of the requisite facts therein may be presented in lieu of the birth certificate, death certificate or judgment. Whenever the clerk is not satisfied with the documentary proof presented, he or she shall submit the presented proof to a judge of a court of record in the county of application for an opinion as to its sufficiency.
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129. 767.80 (6m) of the statutes is amended to read:
767.80 (6m) When action must be commenced. The attorney designated under sub. (6) (a) shall commence an action under this section on behalf of the state within 6 months after receiving notification under s. 69.03 (15) that no father is named on the birth certificate record of a child who is a resident of the county if paternity has not been acknowledged under s. 767.805 (1) or a substantially similar law of another state or adjudicated, except in situations under s. 69.14 (1) (g) and (h) and as provided by the department by rule.
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130. 767.803 of the statutes is amended to read:
767.803 Determination of marital children. If the father and mother of a nonmarital child enter into a lawful marriage or a marriage which appears and they believe is lawful, except where the parental rights of the mother were terminated before either of these circumstances, the child becomes a marital child, is entitled to a change in birth certificate record under s. 69.15 (3) (b), and shall enjoy all of the rights and privileges of a marital child as if he or she had been born during the marriage of the parents. This section applies to all cases before, on, or after its effective date, but no estate already vested shall be divested by this section and ss. 765.05 to 765.24 and 852.05. The children of all marriages declared void under the law are nevertheless marital children.
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131. 767.805 (5) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
767.805 (5) (b) If a court in a proceeding under par. (a) determines that the male is not the father of the child, the court shall vacate any order entered under sub. (4) with respect to the male. The court or the county child support agency under s. 59.53 (5) shall notify the state registrar, in the manner provided in s. 69.15 (1) (b), to remove the male's name as the father of the child from the child's birth certificate record. No paternity action may thereafter be brought against the male with respect to the child.
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132. 767.805 (6) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
767.805 (6) (c) The notice requirements under s. 69.15 (3) (b) 3. apply to this section beginning with forms for the acknowledgment acknowledgements of paternity that are prescribed by the state registrar on April 1, 1998.
