Modifies provisions relating to the disclosure of vital records

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Modifies provisions relating to the disclosure of vital records

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1137 - This act repeals a provision of law permitting the Department of Health and Senior Services to disclose a listing of persons who are born or who die on a particular date upon a person's request.

What This Bill Does

• The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1137 - This act repeals a provision of law permitting the Department of Health and Senior Services to disclose a listing of persons who are born or who die on a particular date upon a person's request.
• This act is identical to SB 598 (2025) and a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025).
• SARAH HASKINS

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Official Summary Text

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SB 1137 - This act repeals a provision of law permitting the Department of Health and Senior Services to disclose a listing of persons who are born or who die on a particular date upon a person's request.

This act is identical to SB 598 (2025) and a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 943 (2025).
SARAH HASKINS

Current Bill Text

EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted
and is intended to be omitted in the law.
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1137
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR GREGORY (15).
4859S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 193.245, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the
disclosure of vital records.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 193.245, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 193.245, 2
to read as follows:3
193.245. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit 1
inspection of, or to disclose information contained in, 2
vital records or to copy or issue a copy of all or part of 3
any such record except as authorized by this law and by 4
regulation or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction 5
or in the following situations: 6
(1) [A listing of persons who are born or who die on a 7
particular date may be disclosed upon request, but no 8
information from the record other than the name and the date 9
of such birth or death shall be disclosed; 10
(2)] The department may authorize the disclosure of 11
information contained in vital records for legitimate 12
research purposes; 13
[(3)] (2) To a qualified applicant as provided in 14
section 193.255; 15
[(4)] (3) Copies of death records over fifty years old 16
may be disclosed upon request. 17
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