MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2025 Regular Session
To: Public Health and Human Services; Appropriations C
By: Representative Creekmore IV
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-57-57, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH TO USE CERTAIN FUNDS RECEIVED AS FEES FOR CERTIFIED COPIES OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMS SUCH AS MATERNAL, INFANT AND CHILD HEALTH AND THE COMPLETION OF ALL OTHER VITAL RECORDS AND STATISTICS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 41-57-57, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
41-57-57. In order to secure records of
marriages and births in the several counties in this state from the earliest
records down to the present time, the State Board of Health is * * * authorized and empowered to make
contract with the circuit clerks or others of this state to compile for the
Bureau of Vital Statistics complete lists of marriages in the various counties
from the earliest records down to the present time. In order to complete these
records by securing records of * * * those marriages in all * * * those counties, the State Board of
Health is * * *
authorized and empowered to deposit all * * * monies received as fees for
certified copies of births, deaths and marriages in the State Treasury in a
separate account to be used for the completion of the vital statistics on
marriages in the various counties, and for clerical expenses and other expenses
necessary for completion and issuance of birth records. * * * Such fund shall be paid out for * * * these purposes only on voucher issued
for these purposes by the State Board of Health. When * * * those statistics of past marriages
in the several counties shall have been completed and paid for, then all of * * * those funds that may remain on hand
and all other such funds collected for certified copies of birth, death and
marriage records thereafter may be used for the completion of birth records and/or
public health programs such as maternal, infant and child health and the
completion of all other vital records and statistics.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2025.