65-2402. Duties of secretary of health and environment; persons offered employment in office of vital statistics, fingerprinting, criminal history records check, use of information. (a) The secretary shall:

(1) Establish within the division of public health suitable offices properly equipped for the preservation of official records;

(2) maintain a complete cross-index on all records filed under the provisions of this act;

(3) install a statewide system of vital statistics;

(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

(5) enforce this act and the regulations made pursuant thereto.

(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. 2024 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.

History: L. 1951, ch. 355, § 2; L. 1974, ch. 352, § 120; L. 2010, ch. 143, § 2; L. 2013, ch. 59, § 4; L. 2024, ch. 15, § 52; July 1.