103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4993

 

Introduced 2/8/2024, by Rep. Ryan Spain

 

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

    Amends the Vital Records Act. Provides that, if a death occurs in this State in a county outside the deceased's county of residence, the local registrar of the district in which the death certificate was filed shall, within 7 days after its filing, send a copy of the death certificate to the local registrar in the district where the deceased's county of residence is located. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning 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. If a death occurs in this State in a county outside
15the deceased's county of residence, the local registrar of the
16district in which the death certificate was filed shall,
17within 7 days of its filing, send a copy of the death
18certificate to the local registrar in the district where the
19deceased's county of residence is located.
20        (a) For the purposes of this Section, if the place of
21    death is unknown, a death certificate shall be filed in
22    the registration district in which a dead body is found,
23    which shall be considered the place of death.

 

 

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1        (b) When a death occurs on a moving conveyance, the
2    place where the body is first removed from the conveyance
3    shall be considered the place of death and a death
4    certificate shall be filed in the registration district in
5    which such place is located.
6        (c) The funeral director who first assumes custody of
7    a dead body shall be responsible for filing a completed
8    death certificate. He or she shall obtain the personal
9    data from the next of kin or the best qualified person or
10    source available; he or she shall enter on the certificate
11    the name, relationship, and address of the informant; he
12    or she shall enter the date, place, and method of final
13    disposition; he or she shall affix his or her own
14    signature and enter his or her address; and shall present
15    the certificate to the person responsible for completing
16    the medical certification of cause of death. The person
17    responsible for completing the medical certification of
18    cause of death must note the presence of
19    methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, clostridium
20    difficile, or vancomycin-resistant enterococci if it is a
21    contributing factor to or the cause of death. Additional
22    multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) may be added to
23    this list by the Department by rule.
24    (2) The medical certification shall be completed and
25signed within 48 hours after death by the certifying health
26care professional who, within 12 months prior to the date of

 

 

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1the patient's death, was treating or managing treatment of the
2patient's illness or condition which resulted in death, except
3when death is subject to the coroner's or medical examiner's
4investigation. In the absence of the certifying health care
5professional or with his or her approval, the medical
6certificate may be completed and signed by his or her
7associate physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or
8physician assistant, the chief medical officer of the
9institution in which death occurred, or the physician who
10performed an autopsy upon the decedent.
11    (3) When a death occurs without medical attendance, or
12when it is otherwise subject to the coroner's or medical
13examiner's investigation, the coroner or medical examiner
14shall be responsible for the completion of a coroner's or
15medical examiner's certificate of death and shall sign the
16medical certification within 48 hours after death, except as
17provided by regulation in special problem cases. If the
18decedent was under the age of 18 years at the time of his or
19her death, and the death was due to injuries suffered as a
20result of a motor vehicle backing over a child, or if the death
21occurred due to the power window of a motor vehicle, the
22coroner or medical examiner must send a copy of the medical
23certification, with information documenting that the death was
24due to a vehicle backing over the child or that the death was
25caused by a power window of a vehicle, to the Department of
26Children and Family Services. The Department of Children and

 

 

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1Family Services shall (i) collect this information for use by
2Child Death Review Teams and (ii) compile and maintain this
3information as part of its Annual Child Death Review Team
4Report to the General Assembly.
5    (3.5) The medical certification of cause of death shall
6expressly provide an opportunity for the person completing the
7certification to indicate that the death was caused in whole
8or in part by a dementia-related disease, Parkinson's Disease,
9or Parkinson-Dementia Complex.
10    (4) When the deceased was a veteran of any war of the
11United States, the funeral director shall prepare a
12"Certificate of Burial of U. S. War Veteran", as prescribed
13and furnished by the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs,
14and submit such certificate to the Illinois Department of
15Veterans' Affairs monthly.
16    (5) When a death is presumed to have occurred in this State
17but the body cannot be located, a death certificate may be
18prepared by the State Registrar upon receipt of an order of a
19court of competent jurisdiction which includes the finding of
20facts required to complete the death certificate. Such death
21certificate shall be marked "Presumptive" and shall show on
22its face the date of the registration and shall identify the
23court and the date of the judgment.
24(Source: P.A. 102-257, eff. 1-1-22; 102-844, eff. 1-1-23;
25103-154, eff. 6-30-23.)
 
26    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

 

 

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1becoming law.