AB898,36,167 (b) The state registrar shall register a new certificate record created under this
8section and shall impound the original certificate record or the certificate record
9registered under sub. (5) and all correspondence, affidavits, court orders and other
10related materials and prohibit access except by court order or except by the state
11registrar for processing purposes or except when authorized under ss. 48.432 and
1248.433. The state registrar shall send a copy notice of any new certificate record
13registered under this section to the local registrar who filed the original of the
14replaced certificate
record. Upon receipt of the copy notification, the local registrar
15shall destroy his or her copy of the replaced certificate and file the new certificate
16original record.
AB898,36,2117 (c) If the state registrar changes a birth certificate record on file or registered
18under this section instead of preparing a new certificate record, the state registrar
19shall make the change under s. 69.11 (5) and shall send a notice of the change to the
20local registrar who filed the original of the changed certificate. Upon receipt of the
21notice, the local registrar shall change his or her copy of the changed certificate
.
AB898,88 22Section 88. 69.16 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,37,823 69.16 (2) If a person has married in this state, at least 365 days have elapsed
24since the marriage and no marriage document is on file, a person with a direct and
25tangible interest in having a marriage document registered may petition the circuit

1court of the county in which the marriage is alleged to have occurred. If the court
2finds that the petitioner has established the fact of the marriage required on the
3marriage document, except for the information under s. 69.20 (2), the clerk of the
4court shall report the court's determination to the state registrar on a form in the
5manner
prescribed by the state registrar, along with the fee required under s. 69.22.
6Upon receipt of the report, the state registrar shall register the marriage document
7and send a copy of the document make the record available to the local registrar
8under s. 69.03 (11). The local registrar shall file the document.
AB898,89 9Section 89. 69.17 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,37,16 1069.17 Divorce report. At the end of every biweekly period, the clerk of any
11court which conducts divorce proceedings under ch. 767 shall forward to the state
12registrar, on a form supplied in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, a report
13of every divorce or annulment of marriage granted during the biweekly period. The
14form supplied by the state registrar shall require that the social security numbers
15of the parties to the divorce or annulment and the social security number of any child
16of the parties be provided.
AB898,90 17Section 90. 69.18 (1) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,37,2118 69.18 (1) (b) (intro.) Any person who moves a corpse under par. (a) shall file a
19certificate of death record for the corpse under this subsection on a form in the
20manner
prescribed by the state registrar under any one of the following
21circumstances:
AB898,91 22Section 91. 69.18 (1) (bm) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,38,623 69.18 (1) (bm) (intro.) A person required to file a certificate of death record
24under par. (b) shall obtain the information required for the certificate of death record
25from the next of kin or the best qualified person or source available. The person filing

1the certificate of death record shall enter his or her signature on the certificate record
2and include his or her address and the date of signing and shall present or mail the
3certificate record, within 24 hours after being notified of the death, to the physician,
4coroner or medical examiner responsible for completing and signing the medical
5certification. Within 2 days after receipt of the medical certification, the person filing
6the certificate of death record shall mail or present the certificate of death record in:
AB898,92 7Section 92. 69.18 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,38,118 69.18 (1) (c) A hospital, a nursing home, as defined in s. 50.01 (3), or a hospice
9that is the place of death of a person may prepare a certificate of death record for the
10person and give the certificate record to the person who moves the corpse under par.
11(a).
AB898,93 12Section 93. 69.18 (1) (cm) 1. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,38,1613 69.18 (1) (cm) 1. (intro.) For purposes of preparation of the certificate of death
14record and in accordance with accepted medical standards, a hospice nurse in a
15hospice that is directly involved with the care of a hospice patient who dies may
16pronounce the date, time, and place of the patient's death if all of the following apply:
AB898,94 17Section 94. 69.18 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,38,2318 69.18 (1) (d) A hospital, nursing home, or hospice may not release a corpse to
19any person under par. (a) unless the person presents a notice of removal on a form
20in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, in duplicate, to the administrator of
21the hospital, nursing home, or hospice. The administrator shall retain one copy and
22forward the other copy to the local registrar of the registration district in which the
23hospital, nursing home, or hospice is located.
AB898,95 24Section 95. 69.18 (1m) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,39,2
169.18 (1m) Format. (intro.) Beginning on January 1, 2003 September 1, 2013,
2a certificate record of death shall consist of the following parts:
AB898,96 3Section 96. 69.18 (1m) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
AB898,97 4Section 97. 69.18 (1m) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,39,65 69.18 (1m) (a) 5. The dates of certification and filing of the certificate of death
6record.
AB898,98 7Section 98. 69.18 (1m) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,39,88 69.18 (1m) (b) 2. Information on final disposition , manner, and cause of death.
AB898,99 9Section 99. 69.18 (2) (a), (b), (d) 1. and 2., (e) and (f) 1. and 3. and (3) (a) of the
10statutes are amended to read:
AB898,39,1311 69.18 (2) (a) On the form for For a certificate of death record, in the manner
12prescribed by the state registrar under sub. (1) (b), the state registrar shall provide
13for a medical certification to be completed under this subsection.
AB898,39,2014 (b) If a person under the care of a physician dies from the illness or condition
15for which the care is given and a coroner or medical examiner does not certify the
16cause of death under par. (d) 1., the physician shall complete and sign a medical
17certification for the death under par. (f) and mail the medical certification within 5
18days after the pronouncement of death or present the medical certification to the
19person responsible for filing the death certificate record under sub. (1) within 6 days
20after the pronouncement of death.
AB898,40,321 (d) 1. Except as provided under par. (e), if a death is the subject of a coroner's
22or medical examiner's determination under s. 979.01 or 979.03, the coroner or
23medical examiner or a physician supervised by a coroner or medical examiner in the
24county where the event which caused the death occurred shall complete and sign the
25medical certification for the death and mail the death certificate record within 5 days

1after the pronouncement of death or present the certificate record to the person
2responsible for filing the death certificate record under sub. (1) within 6 days after
3the pronouncement of death.
AB898,40,104 2. Except as provided under par. (e), if the decedent was not under the care of
5a physician for the illness or condition from which the person died, the coroner or
6medical examiner, or a physician supervised by a coroner or medical examiner, in the
7county of the place of death shall complete and sign the medical certification for the
8death and mail the death certificate record within 5 days after the pronouncement
9of death or present the certificate record to the person responsible for filing the death
10certificate record under sub. (1) within 6 days after the pronouncement of death.
AB898,40,1411 (e) Unless the person is a physician supervised by a coroner or medical
12examiner, no person may act under par. (d) if the subject of the death certificate
13record was his or her patient or a patient in a hospital, or nursing home, as defined
14in s. 50.01 (3), in which he or she has direct care of any patient.
AB898,40,2315 (f) 1. A person signing a medical certification under par. (b), (c) or (d) shall
16describe, in detail, on a form in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, the
17cause of death, show the duration of each cause, the sequence of each cause if the
18cause of death was multiple and, if the cause was disease, the evolution of the
19disease. The person shall describe a disease in medical terms and may not limit the
20description to symptoms or conditions resulting from disease. If the cause of a death
21is medically certified under par. (d), the coroner or medical examiner shall describe
22any violence related to the cause of death, its effect on the decedent and whether it
23was accidental, suicidal, homicidal or undetermined.
AB898,41,524 3. A person signing a medical certification under par. (b), (c) or (d) shall note
25on the certificate record if the cause of death of the subject of the certificate record

1is unknown, undetermined or if the determination of the cause of death is pending
2and shall submit to the state registrar within 30 days after the pronouncement of
3death an amendment to the medical certification which satisfies the requirements
4of subd. 1., except that such amendment may exclude information which is
5unavailable pending the determination of an inquest under s. 979.04.
AB898,41,14 6(3) (a) Except as provided under par. (c) or (e), the person who has moved a
7corpse under sub. (1) (a) shall complete a report for final disposition , on a form
8supplied
in the manner prescribed by the state registrar, and, within 24 hours after
9being notified of the death, mail or present a copy of the report to the coroner or
10medical examiner in the county of the place of death and mail or present a copy to
11the local registrar in the registration district of the place of death. If the cause of
12death is subject to an investigation under s. 979.01 or 979.03, the report for final
13disposition shall be submitted to the coroner or medical examiner in the county in
14which the event which caused the death occurred.
AB898,100 15Section 100. 69.19 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,42,2 1669.19 Court-ordered certificates of death records. If a person has died
17in this state and final disposition of the person's corpse has been effected but no
18certificate of death record is on file one year after a death, a person with a direct and
19tangible interest in having a certificate of death record registered may petition the
20circuit court of the county in which the death is alleged to have occurred. If the court
21finds that the petitioner has established the facts of the death required on the
22certificate of death record, the clerk of the court shall report the court's
23determination to the state registrar on a form in the manner prescribed by the state
24registrar, along with the fee required under s. 69.22. Upon receipt of the report, the

1state registrar shall register the death certificate and send a copy to the local
2registrar under s. 69.03 (11). The local registrar shall file the copy
record.
AB898,101 3Section 101. 69.20 (2) (a) (intro.) and 2. and (c), (3) (b) 4., (c) and (e) (intro.),
41. a. and b. and 2. and (4) of the statutes are amended to read:
AB898,42,115 69.20 (2) (a) (intro.) Except as provided under sub. (3), information in the part
6of a certificate record of birth, divorce or annulment, or termination of domestic
7partnership, a marriage document, or a declaration of domestic partnership that is
8designated on the form record as being collected for statistical or medical and
9statistical use only and information in the part of a death certificate record that is
10designated on the form record as being collected as statistical-use-only information
11under s. 69.18 (1m) (c) may not be disclosed to any person except the following:
AB898,42,1312 2. For a certificate of death record, any of the persons specified under s. 69.18
13(4) (a) 1g. to 6. or an individual who is authorized in writing by one of the persons.
AB898,42,1814 (c) Except as provided under sub. (3), until 50 years after a decedent's date of
15death, the state registrar and a local registrar may not permit inspection of or
16disclose information contained in the portion under s. 69.18 (1m) (b) 2. and 3. of the
17certificate of death record to anyone except to a person specified under sub. (1), or to
18a direct descendent of the decedent.
AB898,42,21 19(3) (b) 4. The information is from a birth certificate record which indicates that
20the registrant has a congenital disability and is submitted to the department of
21public instruction.
AB898,43,522 (c) Notwithstanding sub. (2), a local registrar may disclose information on a
23birth certificate record or issue a copy of the certificate record to a local health
24department, as defined in s. 250.01 (4), for health or demographic research or a public
25health program if the local health department pays the copying costs and if the birth

1of the registrant occurred within the boundaries of the political subdivision served
2by the local health department or the registrant is a resident of the political
3subdivision. The local health department may not disclose any information from any
4copy which it receives under this paragraph to any person and shall destroy the copy
5no later than one year after receipt.
AB898,43,106 (e) (intro.) Public use indexes of certificates of birth, death, marriage, divorce,
7domestic partnership and, termination of domestic partnership, or annulment, or
8marriage documents
records that are filed in the system of vital statistics records at
9the state or local level are accessible only by inspection at the office of the state
10registrar or of a local registrar and may not be copied or reproduced except as follows:
AB898,43,1411 1. a. Certificate of birth Birth record index information may be copied or
12reproduced for the public only after 100 years have elapsed from the year in which
13the birth occurred. No information in the index that has been impounded under s.
1469.15 may be released.
AB898,43,1615 b. Subdivision 1. a. does not apply to certificate of birth record indexes of events
16that occurred before October 1, 1907.
AB898,43,2017 2. Indexes of record of death, marriage, divorce, domestic partnership and,
18termination of domestic partnership, or annulment records may be copied or
19reproduced for the public after 24 months have elapsed from the year in which the
20event occurred.
AB898,43,25 21(4) Under procedures that are promulgated by rule, the state registrar and
22every local registrar shall protect vital records from mutilation, alteration, theft, or
23fraudulent use and shall protect the privacy rights of registrants and their families
24by strictly controlling direct access to any vital record filed or registered in paper
25form
.
AB898,102
1Section 102. 69.21 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,44,112 69.21 (1) (a) 1. Except as provided under subd. 2., the state registrar and any
3local registrar shall issue a certified copy of a vital record to any person if the person
4submits a request for a certified copy of a vital record of a specified registrant in
5writing and, if the vital record is enabled for statewide issuance in the state
6registrar's electronic system for of vital record issuance records, to the extent
7permitted under s. 69.21 (1) (b) 3., and if the request is accompanied by the fee
8required under s. 69.22. If a vital record is not enabled for statewide issuance in the
9state registrar's electronic system for of vital record issuance records, the registrar
10responsible for filing or registration of the vital record may issue a certified copy
11under this section.
AB898,103 12Section 103. 69.21 (1) (a) 2. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,44,1413 69.21 (1) (a) 2. (intro.) The state registrar and any local registrar may not issue
14any certified copy under subd. 1. of any of the following:
AB898,104 15Section 104. 69.21 (1) (a) 2. b. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,44,1916 69.21 (1) (a) 2. b. Any information of the part of a certificate of birth, death, or
17divorce or, annulment, or a marriage document record, the disclosure of which is
18limited under s. 69.20 (2) (a) and (c), unless the requester is the subject of the
19information or, for a decedent, unless the requester is specified in s. 69.20 (2) (a) 2.
AB898,105 20Section 105. 69.21 (1) (a) 2. c. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,44,2221 69.21 (1) (a) 2. c. The birth certificate record of a person if no surname has been
22entered on the birth certificate record for the person under s. 69.14 (1) (f).
AB898,106 23Section 106. 69.21 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,45,624 69.21 (1) (b) 2. Any copy of a birth certificate record issued under par. (a) shall
25be in a long or short form, as specified by the person submitting the request under

1par. (a). The long form shall include the name, sex, date and place of birth and
2parent's surnames of the registrant, the file date and the file number. The short form
3may not include any information about the parents of the registrant. The state
4registrar shall issue the short form for any registrant born of unmarried parents if
5the registrant's certificate record was not prepared under s. 69.15 (3) (b), unless the
6person requesting the copy requests the long form.
AB898,107 7Section 107 . 69.21 (1) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,45,118 69.21 (1) (b) 3. A local registrar may issue a copy of a record of birth, death,
9divorce, or termination of domestic partnership certificate, a , marriage document,
10or a declaration of domestic partnership under par. (a) through the state registrar's
11electronic
system for of vital record issuance records if it is enabled.
AB898,108 12Section 108. 69.21 (1) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,45,1813 69.21 (1) (b) 4. A copy of a death certificate record issued under par. (a) for a
14death that occurred before January 1, 2003 September 1, 2013, shall include the
15name, sex, date and place of death, age or birth date, cause and manner of death, and
16social security number, if any, of the decedent, and the file number and the file date
17of the certificate record, except that a requester may, upon request, obtain a copy that
18does not include the cause of death.
AB898,109 19Section 109. 69.21 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,45,2420 69.21 (1) (b) 5. A copy of a death certificate record issued under par. (a) for a
21death that occurs after December 31, 2002 August 31, 2013, shall be on a form that
22contains only fact-of-death information specified in s. 69.18 (1m) (a), except that a
23requester may, upon request, obtain a form that contains extended fact-of-death
24information specified in s. 69.18 (1m) (b).
AB898,110 25Section 110. 69.21 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,46,7
169.21 (2) (a) The state registrar or local registrar shall issue an uncertified copy
2of the vital record of one or more registrants if the subject of the vital record is an
3event occurring after September 30, 1907. The requirements of ss. 69.15 (6) (b) and
469.20 (3) (b) for disclosing information under s. 69.20 (1) and (2) shall apply to
5issuance under this paragraph of any copy of a vital record containing such
6information. Any uncertified copy issued under this paragraph shall have on its face
7a notice that it is uncertified.
AB898,111 8Section 111. 69.21 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,46,129 69.21 (3) Amendments. Any copy of a vital record issued under this section shall
10show all amendments or changes made on the record since it was filed, the date and
11authority of the amendment or change unless a certificate record was issued for the
12registrant under s. 69.14 (1) (h) or 69.15 (2), (3) or (4) (b).
AB898,112 13Section 112. 69.21 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,46,2314 69.21 (4) (b) A person with a direct and tangible interest in a vital record
15withheld by the state registrar under par. (a) may petition the circuit court of the
16county in which the event which is the subject of the vital record is shown on the
17original record to have occurred. The petition shall be accompanied by a certified
18copy of the original vital record. In issuing the certified copy, the state registrar shall
19mark the copy to indicate that the copy is for use by the court in making its
20determination under this paragraph. If the court finds that the petitioner has proven
21that the information on the vital record is valid, the clerk of court shall report the
22court's determination to the state registrar on a form in the manner prescribed by
23the state registrar, who shall issue the certified copy.
AB898,113 24Section 113. 69.22 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,47,4
169.22 (1) (c) Twenty dollars for issuing an uncertified copy of a birth certificate
2record or a certified copy of a birth certificate record, and $3 for issuing any additional
3certified or uncertified copy of the same birth certificate record issued at the same
4time.
AB898,114 5Section 114. 69.22 (1) (cm) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,47,86 69.22 (1) (cm) Ten dollars for issuing one certified copy of a certificate of birth
7record resulting in stillbirth and $3 for any additional certified copy of the same
8certificate record issued at the same time.
AB898,115 9Section 115. 69.22 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,47,1410 69.22 (1m) The state registrar and any local registrar acting under this
11subchapter shall, for each copy of a birth certificate record for which a fee under sub.
12(1) (c) is charged that is issued during a calendar quarter, forward to the secretary
13of administration for deposit in the appropriation accounts under s. 20.433 (1) (g) and
14(h) $7 by the 15th day of the first month following the end of the calendar quarter.
AB898,116 15Section 116. 69.22 (1q) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,47,1716 69.22 (1q) (c) For any copy of a birth certificate record for which a fee of $20
17under sub. (1) (c) is charged, $8.
AB898,117 18Section 117 . 69.22 (4) of the statutes is repealed.
AB898,118 19Section 118. 69.22 (5) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,47,2120 69.22 (5) (a) 3. Making any change in a birth certificate record under s. 69.15
21(3).
AB898,119 22Section 119. 69.22 (5) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,48,223 69.22 (5) (b) 2. The filing of a birth certificate record under s. 69.14 (2) (b) 5.
24The fee under this subdivision includes the search for the birth certificate record and

1the first copy of the certificate record except that the state registrar shall add to the
2$20 fee, $5.
AB898,120 3Section 120. 69.23 of the statutes is repealed.
AB898,121 4Section 121. 69.24 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,48,85 69.24 (1) (b) Willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a birth or
6death certificate record under s. 69.09, 69.10, 69.14 or 69.18, in an application for an
7amendment to a birth or death certificate record under s. 69.11 or 69.12 or in a
8request for a certified copy of a birth certificate record under s. 69.21.
AB898,122 9Section 122. 69.24 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,48,1210 69.24 (1) (c) Willfully and knowingly supplies any false information with the
11intent that the information be used in the preparation of a birth or death certificate
12record or the amendment of a birth or death certificate record.
AB898,123 13Section 123. 69.24 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,48,1614 69.24 (1) (d) Counterfeits or, without authorization, makes, alters or amends
15any birth or death certificate record required by this subchapter or a certified copy
16of such certificate record.
AB898,124 17Section 124. 69.24 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB898,48,1918 69.24 (1) (e) Mutilates or destroys an original birth or death certificate record
19filed under this subchapter.
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