California Health and Safety Code

§ 102900

HSC § 102900 Effective Jan 1, 1996Div. 102 · Part 1 · Ch. 6 · Art. 5

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)Birth and death certificate-linking studies done by the department in 1974 and repeated in 1984, show unacceptably high rates of error in the completion of death certificate information recording ethnicity for American Indian infants.

(b)Official vital data on deaths for American Indians in the State of California indicate an implausible death rate equal to one-half of the United States rate for all races and one-quarter of the rate for American Indians in all states.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 1996.