{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-2402","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 65-2402","heading":"Duties of secretary of health and environment; persons offered employment in office of vital statistics, fingerprinting, criminal history records check, use of information.","body":"(a) The secretary shall:\n(1) Establish within the division of public health suitable offices properly equipped for the preservation of official records;\n(2) maintain a complete cross-index on all records filed under the provisions of this act;\n(3) install a statewide system of vital statistics;\n(4) make and may amend, after notice and hearing, necessary regulations, give instructions and prescribe forms for collection, transcribing, compiling and preserving vital statistics; and\n(5) enforce this act and the regulations made pursuant thereto.\n(b) Any employee in the office of vital statistics who is subject to a criminal history records check shall be given a written notice that a criminal history records check is required. The secretary shall require such applicant to be fingerprinted and submit to a state and national criminal history record check in accordance with K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 22-4714, and amendments thereto. If the criminal history record information is used to disqualify an applicant, the applicant shall be informed in writing of that decision.","path":["Chapter 65.—PUBLIC HEALTH","Article 24.—UNIFORM VITAL STATISTICS ACT"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch65/065_024_0002.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-10-15T06:23:41Z","sha256":"60a063ce118df0c9a1fd32b5f5971973083654834436a0cff215a5f30ad6bec6","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-2401","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-2405"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}