Bill Text: PA HB474 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to join the Interstate Compact on Birth Certificates Issued to Aliens Not Subject to United States Jurisdiction; providing for the form of the compact; and imposing additional powers and duties on the Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Compact.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 21-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-01 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [HB474 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB474-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 888
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 474 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY COX, METCALFE, KNOWLES, BOYD, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, GABLER, GEIST, HARRIS, KAUFFMAN, MILLER, O'NEILL, PYLE, ROCK AND SCHRODER, MARCH 1, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 1, 2011
AN ACT
Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to join the
Interstate Compact on Birth Certificates Issued to Aliens Not
Subject to United States Jurisdiction; providing for the form
of the compact; and imposing additional powers and duties on
the Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the
Compact.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Interstate
Compact.
Section 2. Authority to execute compact.
The Governor of Pennsylvania, on behalf of this State, is
hereby directed and authorized to execute a compact in
substantially the following form with any one or more of the
states of the United States, and the General Assembly hereby
signifies in advance its approval and ratification of such
compact:
Interstate Compact on Birth Certificates Issued to Aliens
Not Subject to United States Jurisdiction
(a) Signatories.--The signatories to this compact shall make
a distinction in the birth certificates, certifications of live
birth or other birth records issued in the signatory states,
between persons born in the signatory state who are born subject
to the jurisdiction of the United States and persons who are not
born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Persons
born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States shall be
designated as natural-born United States citizens.
(b) Construction.--Subject to the jurisdiction of the United
States has the meaning that it bears in section 1 of the 14th
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, namely, that
the person is a child of at least one parent who owes no
allegiance to any foreign sovereignty or a child without
citizenship or nationality in any foreign country. For the
purposes of this compact, a person who owes no allegiance to any
foreign sovereignty is a United States citizen or national, or
an immigrant accorded the privilege of residing permanently in
the United States, or a person without citizenship or
nationality in any foreign country.
(c) Congress.--This compact shall not take effect until
Congress has given its consent under clause 3 of section 10 of
Article I of the Constitution of the United States.
Section 3. When and how compact becomes operative.
(a) General rule.--When the Governor executes the Interstate
Compact on behalf of this State and files a verified copy
thereof with the Secretary of the Commonwealth and when the
compact is ratified by one or more other states, then the
compact shall become operative and effective between this State
and such other state or states. The Governor is hereby
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authorized and directed to take such action as may be necessary
to complete the exchange of official documents between this
State and any other state ratifying the compact.
(b) Notice in Pennsylvania Bulletin.-–The Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall publish a notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin
when the conditions set forth in subsection (a) are satisfied
and shall include in the notice the date on which the compact
became effective and operative between this State and any other
state or states in accordance with this act.
Section 4. Compensation and expenses of compact administrator.
The compact administrator who represents this State shall not
be entitled to any additional compensation for his duties and
responsibilities as compact administrator but shall be entitled
to reimbursement for reasonable expenses actually incurred in
connection with his duties and responsibilities as compact
administrator in the same manner as for expenses incurred in
connection with other duties and responsibilities of his office
or employment.
Section 5. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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