2017 Wisconsin Act 334

(c) If the state registrar is required to enter a new surname or a new given name on a birth certificate record under par. (b) 4. and the registrant has not reached the age of 7 years, the state registrar shall make a new certificate record under sub. (6).

(d) The form method prescribed by the state registrar for acknowledging paternity shall require that the social security number of each of the registrant's parents signing the form be provided.

(3m) (a) 2. The person rescinding the statement files with the state registrar a document a rescission in the method prescribed by the state registrar for rescinding a statement acknowledging paternity under sub. (3) (b) 3.

3. The person rescinding the statement files the document a rescission in the method prescribed under subd. 2. before the day on which a court or circuit court commissioner makes an order in an action affecting the family involving the man who signed the statement and the child who is the subject of the statement or before 60 days elapse after the statement was filed, whichever occurs first.

(b) If the state registrar, within the time required under par. (a) 3., receives a document rescission in the method prescribed by the state registrar for rescinding a statement acknowledging paternity under sub. (3) (b) 3., along with the proper fee under s. 69.22, the state registrar shall prepare under sub. (6) a new certificate record omitting the father's name if it was inserted under sub. (3) (b).

(4) (a) If the state registrar receives an order under sub. (1) which provides for a name change, the state registrar shall change the name on the original birth certificate record.

(b) Any person with a direct and tangible interest in a birth certificate record registered in this state may petition a court to change the name and sex of the registrant on the certificate record due to a surgical sex-change procedure. If the state registrar receives an order which provides for such a change the state registrar shall change the name and sex on the original certificate record, except that if the court orders the state registrar to prepare a new certificate record the state registrar shall prepare a new certificate record under sub. (6). This subsection does not apply to a name change prohibited under s. 301.47.

(4m) (a) 1. The request for the change is received to by the state registrar, in writing, on a form approved in the manner prescribed by the state registrar.

(b) If the conditions under par. (a) 1. to 4. are met, the state registrar shall change the registrant's name on the registrant's birth certificate record. The state registrar is not required to issue a new birth certificate under this paragraph.

(5) New certificate record for a person without any certificate record . If no birth certificate record has been registered for any person who is more than 365 days old and who is entitled to a new certificate record under this section, and if the date and place of birth of the person have not been determined by a court, the state registrar shall register a birth certificate record for the individual under s. 69.14 (2) (b) before preparing a new certificate record under sub. (6).

(6) (title) Preparation of new certificates records. (a) The state registrar shall prepare a new birth certificate record that under this section on the form in use at the time the original certificate was filed. The state registrar shall include on a new certificate the date of creation of the new certificate record and shall sign it. The state registrar shall type on the new certificate any other legible signature on the original certificate.

(b) The state registrar shall register a new certificate record created under this section and shall impound the original certificate record or the certificate record registered under sub. (5) and all correspondence, affidavits, court orders and other related materials and prohibit access except by court order or except by the state registrar for processing purposes or except when authorized under ss. 48.432 and 48.433. The state registrar shall send a copy notice of any new certificate record registered under this section to the local registrar who filed the original of the replaced certificate record. Upon receipt of the copy notification, the local registrar shall destroy his or her copy of the replaced certificate and file the new certificate original record.

(c) If the state registrar changes a birth certificate record on file or registered under this section instead of preparing a new certificate record, the state registrar shall make the change under s. 69.11 (5) and shall send a notice of the change to the local registrar who filed the original of the changed certificate. Upon receipt of the notice, the local registrar shall change his or her copy of the changed certificate.

334,78 Section 78. 69.16 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

69.16 (2) If a person has married in this state, at least 365 days have elapsed since the marriage and no marriage document is on file, a person with a direct and tangible interest in having a marriage document registered may petition the circuit court of the county in which the marriage is alleged to have occurred. If the court finds that the petitioner has established the fact of the marriage required on the marriage document, except for the information under s. 69.20 (2), the clerk of the court shall report the court's determination to the state registrar on a form in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, along with the fee required under s. 69.22. Upon receipt of the report, the state registrar shall register the marriage document and send a copy of the document make the record available to the local registrar under s. 69.03 (11). The local registrar shall file the document.

334,79 Section 79. 69.17 of the statutes is amended to read:

69.17 Divorce report. At the end of every biweekly period, the clerk of any court which conducts divorce proceedings under ch. 767 shall forward to the state registrar, on a form supplied in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, a report of every divorce or annulment of marriage granted during the biweekly period. The form supplied by the state registrar shall require that the social security numbers of the parties to the divorce or annulment and the social security number of any child of the parties be provided.

334,80 Section 80. 69.18 (1) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

69.18 (1) (b) (intro.) Any person who moves a corpse under par. (a) shall file a certificate of death record for the corpse under this subsection on a form in the manner prescribed by the state registrar under any one of the following circumstances:

334,81 Section 81. 69.18 (1) (bm) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

69.18 (1) (bm) (intro.) A person required to file a certificate of death record under par. (b) shall obtain the information required for the certificate of death record from the next of kin or the best qualified person or source available. The person filing the certificate of death record shall enter his or her signature on the certificate record and include his or her address and the date of signing and shall present or mail the certificate record, within 24 hours after being notified of the death, to the physician, coroner or medical examiner responsible for completing and signing the medical certification. Within 2 days after receipt of the medical certification, the person filing the certificate of death record shall mail or present the certificate of death record in:

334,82 Section 82. 69.18 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

69.18 (1) (c) A hospital, a nursing home, as defined in s. 50.01 (3), or a hospice that is the place of death of a person may prepare a certificate of death record for the person and give the certificate record to the person who moves the corpse under par. (a).

334,83 Section 83. 69.18 (1) (cm) 1. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

69.18 (1) (cm) 1. (intro.) For purposes of preparation of the certificate of death record and in accordance with accepted medical standards, a hospice nurse in a hospice that is directly involved with the care of a hospice patient who dies may pronounce the date, time, and place of the patient's death if all of the following apply:

334,84 Section 84. 69.18 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

69.18 (1) (d) A hospital, nursing home, or hospice may not release a corpse to any person under par. (a) unless the person presents a notice of removal on a form in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, in duplicate, to the administrator of the hospital, nursing home, or hospice. The administrator shall retain one copy and forward the other copy to the local registrar of the registration district in which the hospital, nursing home, or hospice is located.

334,85 Section 85. 69.18 (1m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

69.18 (1m) Format. (intro.) Beginning on January 1, 2003 September 1, 2013, a certificate record of death shall consist of the following parts:

334,86 Section 86. 69.18 (1m) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.

334,87 Section 87. 69.18 (1m) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

69.18 (1m) (a) 5. The dates of certification and filing of the certificate of death record.

334,88 Section 88. 69.18 (1m) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

69.18 (1m) (b) 2. Information on final disposition , manner, and cause of death.

334,89 Section 89. 69.18 (2) (a), (b), (d) 1. and 2., (e) and (f) 1. and 3. and (3) (a) of the statutes are amended to read:

69.18 (2) (a) On the form for For a certificate of death record, in the manner prescribed by the state registrar under sub. (1) (b), the state registrar shall provide for a medical certification to be completed under this subsection.

(b) If a person under the care of a physician dies from the illness or condition for which the care is given and a coroner or medical examiner does not certify the cause of death under par. (d) 1., the physician shall complete and sign a medical certification for the death under par. (f) and mail the medical certification within 5 days after the pronouncement of death or present the medical certification to the person responsible for filing the death certificate record under sub. (1) within 6 days after the pronouncement of death.

(d) 1. Except as provided under par. (e), if a death is the subject of a coroner's or medical examiner's determination under s. 979.01 or 979.03, the coroner or medical examiner or a physician supervised by a coroner or medical examiner in the county where the event which caused the death occurred shall complete and sign the medical certification for the death and mail the death certificate record within 5 days after the pronouncement of death or present the certificate record to the person responsible for filing the death certificate record under sub. (1) within 6 days after the pronouncement of death.

2. Except as provided under par. (e), if the decedent was not under the care of a physician for the illness or condition from which the person died, the coroner or medical examiner, or a physician supervised by a coroner or medical examiner, in the county of the place of death shall complete and sign the medical certification for the death and mail the death certificate record within 5 days after the pronouncement of death or present the certificate record to the person responsible for filing the death certificate record under sub. (1) within 6 days after the pronouncement of death.

(e) Unless the person is a physician supervised by a coroner or medical examiner, no person may act under par. (d) if the subject of the death certificate record was his or her patient or a patient in a hospital, or nursing home, as defined in s. 50.01 (3), in which he or she has direct care of any patient.

(f) 1. A person signing a medical certification under par. (b), (c) or (d) shall describe, in detail, on a form in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, the cause of death, show the duration of each cause, the sequence of each cause if the cause of death was multiple and, if the cause was disease, the evolution of the disease. The person shall describe a disease in medical terms and may not limit the description to symptoms or conditions resulting from disease. If the cause of a death is medically certified under par. (d), the coroner or medical examiner shall describe any violence related to the cause of death, its effect on the decedent and whether it was accidental, suicidal, homicidal or undetermined.

3. A person signing a medical certification under par. (b), (c) or (d) shall note on the certificate record if the cause of death of the subject of the certificate record is unknown, undetermined or if the determination of the cause of death is pending and shall submit to the state registrar within 30 days after the pronouncement of death an amendment to the medical certification which satisfies the requirements of subd. 1., except that such amendment may exclude information which is unavailable pending the determination of an inquest under s. 979.04.

(3) (a) Except as provided under par. (c) or (e), the person who has moved a corpse under sub. (1) (a) shall complete a report for final disposition, on a form supplied in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, and, within 24 hours after being notified of the death, mail or present a copy of the report to the coroner or medical examiner in the county of the place of death and mail or present a copy to the local registrar in the registration district of the place of death. If the cause of death is subject to an investigation under s. 979.01 or 979.03, the report for final disposition shall be submitted to the coroner or medical examiner in the county in which the event which caused the death occurred.

334,90 Section 90. 69.19 of the statutes is amended to read:

69.19 Court-ordered certificates of death records. If a person has died in this state and final disposition of the person's corpse has been effected but no certificate of death record is on file one year after a death, a person with a direct and tangible interest in having a certificate of death record registered may petition the circuit court of the county in which the death is alleged to have occurred. If the court finds that the petitioner has established the facts of the death required on the certificate of death record, the clerk of the court shall report the court's determination to the state registrar on a form in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, along with the fee required under s. 69.22. Upon receipt of the report, the state registrar shall register the death certificate and send a copy to the local registrar under s. 69.03 (11). The local registrar shall file the copy record.

334,91 Section 91. 69.20 (2) (a) (intro.) and 2. and (c), (3) (b) 4., (c) and (e) (intro.), 1. a. and b. and 2. and (4) of the statutes are amended to read:

69.20 (2) (a) (intro.) Except as provided under sub. (3), information in the part of a certificate record of birth, divorce or annulment, or termination of domestic partnership, a marriage document, or a declaration of domestic partnership that is designated on the form record as being collected for statistical or medical and statistical use only and information in the part of a death certificate record that is designated on the form record as being collected as statistical-use-only information under s. 69.18 (1m) (c) may not be disclosed to any person except the following:

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.

334,92 Section 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.

334,93 Section 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:

334,94 Section 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.

334,95 Section 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).

334,96 Section 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.

334,97 Section 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.

334,98 Section 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.

334,99 Section 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).

334,100 Section 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.

334,101 Section 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).

334,102 Section 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.

334,103 Section 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.

334,104 Section 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.

334,105 Section 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.

334,106 Section 106. 69.22 (4) of the statutes is repealed.

334,107 Section 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).

334,108 Section 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.