Section 65-2402 - Duties of secretary of health and environment; persons offered employment in office of vital statistics, 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 section 2, 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.Amended by L. 2024, ch. 15,§ 52, eff. 7/1/2024.Amended by L. 2013, ch. 59,§ 4, eff. 7/1/2013.Amended by L. 2010, ch. 143,§ 2, eff. after its publication in the Kansas register.L. 1951, ch. 355, § 2; L. 1974, ch. 352, § 120; July 1.