BILL NUMBER: SB 850	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senators Maldonado and Correa
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Adams)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2007

   An act to add Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 103040) to
Chapter 7 of Part 1 of Division 102 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to vital records.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 850, as introduced, Maldonado. Birth certificates: stillborn
births.
   Existing law requires the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, to
administer the registration of births, deaths, fetal deaths, and
marriages. Existing law requires that each fetal death in which the
fetus has advanced to or beyond the 20th week of uterogestation to be
registered with the local registrar of births and deaths of the
district in which the fetal death was officially pronounced within 8
calendar days following the event and prior to any disposition of the
fetus.
   This bill would enact the Missing Angels Act, which would require
the local registrar of births and deaths of the district in which a
fetal death in which the fetus has advanced to or beyond the 20th
week of uterogestation is registered to issue, upon request, to the
father or mother or his or her designee, a certificate of birth
resulting in stillbirth on a form approved by the State Registrar of
Vital Statistics for each fetal death occurring in this state after
the 20th week of uterogestation, as provided. By imposing a new
requirement on local registrars of births and deaths, the bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 103040) is added
to Chapter 7 of Part 1 of Division 102 of the Health and Safety Code,
to read:

      Article 4.5.  Missing Angels Act


   103040.  This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Missing
Angels Act.
   103040.1.  (a) The local registrar of births and deaths of the
district in which a fetal death in which the fetus has advanced
beyond the 20th week of uterogestation shall issue, upon request to
the mother or father of the fetus, or his or her designee, a
certificate of birth resulting from stillbirth, on a form approved by
the State Registrar of Vital Statistics for each fetal death
occurring in this state after the 20th week of uterogestation.
   (b) A certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth issued pursuant
to subdivision (a) shall comply with all of the format and filing
requirements governing a certificate for a live birth contained in
Article 2 (commencing with Section 102425).
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.