Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Senate Bill SB52 Compare Versions

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4	4	2025 SENATE BILL 52
5	5	February 21, 2025 - Introduced by Senator JACQUE, cosponsored by Representatives
6	6	KITCHENS, O'CONNOR, SHEEHAN and WICHGERS. Referred to Committee on
7	7	Transportation and Local Government.
8	8	AN ACT to amend 69.20 (2) (b), 69.21 (1) (a) 2. a., 69.21 (2) (a), 69.21 (2) (b),
9	9	69.21 (2) (d) 1. and 69.30 (3) of the statutes; relating to: copies of and
10	10	inspection or disclosure of information contained in certain vital records.
11	11	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
12	12	Current state vital records law contains provisions addressing the issuance
13	13	and copying of and inspection or disclosure of information contained in vital records
14	14	and in certain circumstances, distinguishes between records for events before and
15	15	after October 1, 1907. This bill changes the distinguishing date in those
16	16	circumstances from the fixed date in 1907 to instead allow expanded authority to
17	17	inspect or disclose information contained in or copy a vital record if the event that is
18	18	the subject of the record took place at least 100 years ago. More specifically, the
19	19	authority to issue, copy, or allow inspection or disclosure of information contained
20	20	in a vital record specified under current law based on whether the event that is the
21	21	subject of the record occurred before or after October 1, 1907, would, under the bill,
22	22	instead be triggered by whether the event took place before or on or after January 1
23	23	of the year that is 100 years prior to the date of the request or, in the case of certain
24	24	photocopies, the date of the issuance of the uncertified copy of the vital record—a
25	25	date that will automatically advance as time progresses.
26	26	For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
27	27	printed as an appendix to this bill.
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34	34	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
35	35	enact as follows:
36	36	SECTION 1. 69.20 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
37	37	69.20 (2) (b) Except as provided under sub. (3), the state registrar and local
38	38	registrars may not permit inspection of or disclose information contained in any
39	39	record of a birth which occurred on or after September 30, 1907 January 1 of the
40	40	year that is 100 years prior to the date of the request for inspection or disclosure for
41	41	information if the mother of the subject of the record was not married at any time
42	42	from the conception to the birth of the subject of the record, unless the inspection is
43	43	by or the information is disclosed to a person who has a direct and tangible interest
44	44	in such record.
45	45	SECTION 2. 69.21 (1) (a) 2. a. of the statutes is amended to read:
46	46	69.21 (1) (a) 2. a. A vital record, if the event which is the subject of the vital
47	47	record occurred on or after September 30, 1907 January 1 of the year that is 100
48	48	years prior to the date of the request for issuance of a certified copy of the vital
49	49	record, unless the requester is a person with a direct and tangible interest in the
50	50	record or unless the registrar has received a court order directing issuance of the
51	51	vital record.
52	52	SECTION 3. 69.21 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
53	53	69.21 (2) (a) The state registrar or local registrar shall issue an uncertified
54	54	copy of the vital record of one or more registrants if the subject of the vital record is
55	55	an event occurring on or after September 30, 1907 January 1 of the year that is 100
56	56	years prior to the date of the request for issuance of an uncertified copy of the vital
57	57	record. The requirements of ss. 69.15 (6) (b) and 69.20 (3) (b) for disclosing
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83	83	SECTION 3
84	84	information under s. 69.20 (1) and (2) shall apply to issuance under this paragraph
85	85	of any copy of a vital record containing such information. Any uncertified copy
86	86	issued under this paragraph shall have on its face a notice that it is uncertified.
87	87	SECTION 4. 69.21 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
88	88	69.21 (2) (b) The state registrar and any local registrar shall issue an
89	89	uncertified copy of the vital record of one or more registrants, whether specified or
90	90	not, to any person if the subject of the vital record is an event occurring before
91	91	October 1, 1907 January 1 of the year that is 100 years prior to the date of the
92	92	request for issuance of the uncertified copy of the vital record, and if the person
93	93	submits a request for the copy in writing to the registrar responsible for filing or
94	94	registering the vital record and if the request is accompanied by the fee required
95	95	under s. 69.22 (1) (b).
96	96	SECTION 5. 69.21 (2) (d) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
97	97	69.21 (2) (d) 1. An uncertified photocopy of a vital record for an event
98	98	occurring before October 1, 1907 January 1 of the year that is 100 years prior to the
99	99	date of issuance of the uncertified photocopy of the vital record, other than a vital
100	100	record held by the state registrar and any local registrar, shall be stamped XNOT
101	101	FOR IDENTITY PURPOSES Y across its face and is subject to this paragraph but is
102	102	not otherwise subject to the limitations of this section or the requirements of s.
103	103	69.22.
104	104	SECTION 6. 69.30 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
105	105	69.30 (3) Any person may copy or may make available electronically an
106	106	uncertified copy of a vital record that is issued under s. 69.21 (2) (b) or (d) for an
107	107	event occurring before October 1, 1907, that is issued under s. 69.21 (2) (b) or (d)
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135	135	SECTION 6
136	136	January 1 of the year that is 100 years prior to the date of issuance of the
137	137	uncertified copy of the vital record.
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