97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB1378

 

Introduced 2/8/2011, by Sen. Christine Radogno

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
410 ILCS 535/18  from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-18

    Amends the Vital Records Act. Provides that the person responsible for completing the medical certification of cause of death for a death certificate must note the presence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus if it is a contributing factor to or the cause of death. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning public health.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Vital Records Act is amended by changing
5Section 18 as follows:
 
6    (410 ILCS 535/18)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-18)
7    Sec. 18. (1) Each death which occurs in this State shall be
8registered by filing a death certificate with the local
9registrar of the district in which the death occurred or the
10body was found, within 7 days after such death (within 5 days
11if the death occurs prior to January 1, 1989) and prior to
12cremation or removal of the body from the State, except when
13death is subject to investigation by the coroner or medical
14examiner.
15        (a) For the purposes of this Section, if the place of
16    death is unknown, a death certificate shall be filed in the
17    registration district in which a dead body is found, which
18    shall be considered the place of death.
19        (b) When a death occurs on a moving conveyance, the
20    place where the body is first removed from the conveyance
21    shall be considered the place of death and a death
22    certificate shall be filed in the registration district in
23    which such place is located.

 

 

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1        (c) The funeral director who first assumes custody of a
2    dead body shall be responsible for filing a completed death
3    certificate. He shall obtain the personal data from the
4    next of kin or the best qualified person or source
5    available; he shall enter on the certificate the name,
6    relationship, and address of his informant; he shall enter
7    the date, place, and method of final disposition; he shall
8    affix his own signature and enter his address; and shall
9    present the certificate to the person responsible for
10    completing the medical certification of cause of death. The
11    person responsible for completing the medical
12    certification of cause of death must note the presence of
13    methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus if it is a
14    contributing factor to or the cause of death.
15    (2) The medical certification shall be completed and signed
16within 48 hours after death by the physician in charge of the
17patient's care for the illness or condition which resulted in
18death, except when death is subject to the coroner's or medical
19examiner's investigation. In the absence of the physician or
20with his approval, the medical certificate may be completed and
21signed by his associate physician, the chief medical officer of
22the institution in which death occurred or by the physician who
23performed an autopsy upon the decedent.
24    (3) When a death occurs without medical attendance, or when
25it is otherwise subject to the coroner's or medical examiner's
26investigation, the coroner or medical examiner shall be

 

 

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1responsible for the completion of a coroner's or medical
2examiner's certificate of death and shall sign the medical
3certification within 48 hours after death, except as provided
4by regulation in special problem cases. If the decedent was
5under the age of 18 years at the time of his or her death, and
6the death was due to injuries suffered as a result of a motor
7vehicle backing over a child, or if the death occurred due to
8the power window of a motor vehicle, the coroner or medical
9examiner must send a copy of the medical certification, with
10information documenting that the death was due to a vehicle
11backing over the child or that the death was caused by a power
12window of a vehicle, to the Department of Children and Family
13Services. The Department of Children and Family Services shall
14(i) collect this information for use by Child Death Review
15Teams and (ii) compile and maintain this information as part of
16its Annual Child Death Review Team Report to the General
17Assembly.
18    (3.5) The medical certification of cause of death shall
19expressly provide an opportunity for the person completing the
20certification to indicate that the death was caused in whole or
21in part by a dementia-related disease, Parkinson's Disease, or
22Parkinson-Dementia Complex.
23    (4) When the deceased was a veteran of any war of the
24United States, the funeral director shall prepare a
25"Certificate of Burial of U. S. War Veteran", as prescribed and
26furnished by the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs, and

 

 

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1submit such certificate to the Illinois Department of Veterans'
2Affairs monthly.
3    (5) When a death is presumed to have occurred in this State
4but the body cannot be located, a death certificate may be
5prepared by the State Registrar upon receipt of an order of a
6court of competent jurisdiction which includes the finding of
7facts required to complete the death certificate. Such death
8certificate shall be marked "Presumptive" and shall show on its
9face the date of the registration and shall identify the court
10and the date of the judgment.
11(Source: P.A. 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
 
12    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13becoming law.