Budget Amendment ID: FY2016-S3-56

OTH 56

Vital Records Trust Fund

Ms. O'Connor Ives and Mr. deMacedo moved that the proposed new text be amended by striking out, in SECTION 27, the following words:-

"Section 2RRRR. There shall be a Secure Vital Registry Trust Fund to be expended without prior appropriation by the department of public health.  The fund shall consist of the commonwealth's share of revenues collected for the provision of records under chapter 46 by state and local officials under a schedule promulgated pursuant to section 3B of chapter 7.  The commissioner of public health or a designee shall be the trustee of the fund and shall make expenditures from the fund for the administrative costs of development, maintenance and operation of the centralized, automated database for the system of vital records and statistics provided for in section 33 of said chapter 46.  The department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts in anticipation of expected receipts; provided however, that no expenditure shall be made from the fund which shall cause the fund to be in deficit at the close of a fiscal year.  Monies deposited in the fund that are unexpended at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the General Fund."; and

by striking out SECTIONS 31 and 106 in their entirety.