Bill > HB5654

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Amends the Vital Records Act. Removes language requiring that the State Registrar of Vital Records establish a new certificate of birth when he receives a declaration stating that a person has undergone treatment for the purpose of gender transition, or that the individual has an intersex condition, and that the sex designation on such person's birth record should therefore be changed. Provides that the State Registrar of Vital Records must establish a new certificate of birth when he receives a statement signed by the person in which the person attests to making the request for the purpose of affirming the person's gender identity or intersex condition and that the sex designation on the person's certificate of birth should therefore be changed. Provides that the fee for a new certificate of birth shall not be required from persons upon release from the Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice, but the person is entitled to only one new certificate of birth fee waiver. Provides that the fee for a new certificate of birth shall be waived for homeless persons, youths in care, and persons under the age of 27 who were youths in care. Effective January 1, 2021.

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Jen Gong-Gershowitz (D)*,  Kam Buckner (D),  Jonathan Carroll (D),  Kelly Cassidy (D),  John Connor (D),  Deborah Conroy (D),  Dan Didech (D),  Mike Halpin (D),  Lisa Hernandez (D),  Joyce Mason (D),  Bob Morgan (D),  Jonathan Pizer (D),  Justin Slaughter (D),  Katie Stuart (D),  Karina Villa (D),  Ann Williams (D),  Kathleen Willis (D), 

Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee (on 06/23/2020)

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