Section 43 Security of Identity Documents and Confidential Information 10

Said chapter 46 is hereby further amended by striking out section 12, as so appearing, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 12. Except as hereinafter provided, the clerk of a city or town shall transmit upon registration an electronic or certified copy of the record of each birth and death recorded, if the parents of the child born were at the time of said birth residents of any other city or town in the commonwealth, or if the deceased at the time of his death was a resident of any other city or town aforesaid or was a war veteran and was buried in any other city or town aforesaid, and transmit such copy to the clerk of the city or town where such parents or deceased person were so resident, setting forth the name of the street and number of the house, if any, where such parents or deceased person so resided and, in the case of a deceased war veteran as aforesaid, to the clerk of the city or town where he was buried, setting forth the cemetery or other place of burial.

This section, along with thirteen others, updates the laws governing the registration of births, deaths, and marriages and the disclosure of corresponding records to align with national best practices for the protection of personally identifiable data and confidential health information.