Full Text of HB1658 97th General Assembly
HB1658ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Patricia R. Bellock Filed: 3/15/2011
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1658
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1658 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Vital Records Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 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 | 8 | | registered
by filing a death certificate with the local | 9 | | registrar
of the district in which the death occurred or the | 10 | | body was found, within
7 days after such death (within 5 days | 11 | | if the death occurs prior to
January 1, 1989) and prior to | 12 | | cremation or removal of the body from
the State, except when | 13 | | death is subject to investigation by the coroner or
medical | 14 | | examiner.
| 15 | | (a) For the purposes of this Section, if the place of | 16 | | death is unknown,
a death certificate shall be filed in the |
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a dead body is found, which | 2 | | shall be considered the place of death.
| 3 | | (b) When a death occurs on a moving conveyance, the | 4 | | place where the body
is first removed from the conveyance | 5 | | shall be considered the place of death
and a death | 6 | | certificate shall be filed in the registration district in
| 7 | | which such place is located.
| 8 | | (c) The funeral director who first assumes
custody of a | 9 | | dead body shall be responsible for filing a completed death
| 10 | | certificate. He shall obtain the personal data from the | 11 | | next
of kin or the best qualified person or source | 12 | | available; he shall enter
on the certificate the name, | 13 | | relationship,
and address of his informant; he shall enter | 14 | | the date, place, and method
of final disposition; he shall | 15 | | affix his own signature and enter his address;
and shall | 16 | | present the certificate to the person responsible for | 17 | | completing
the medical certification of cause of death. The | 18 | | person responsible for completing
the medical | 19 | | certification of cause of death must note the presence of | 20 | | methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, clostridium | 21 | | difficile, or vancomycin-resistant enterococci if it is a | 22 | | contributing factor to or the cause of death. Additional | 23 | | multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) may be added to this | 24 | | list by the Department by rule.
| 25 | | (2) The medical certification shall be completed and signed | 26 | | within 48
hours after death by the physician in charge of the |
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illness or condition which resulted in | 2 | | death, except when death is subject
to the coroner's or medical | 3 | | examiner's investigation. In the absence of
the physician or | 4 | | with his approval, the medical certificate may be
completed and | 5 | | signed by his associate physician, the chief medical officer
of | 6 | | the institution in which death occurred or by the physician who
| 7 | | performed an autopsy upon the decedent.
| 8 | | (3) When a death occurs without medical attendance, or when | 9 | | it is otherwise
subject to the coroner's or medical examiner's | 10 | | investigation, the coroner
or medical examiner shall be | 11 | | responsible for the completion of a coroner's
or medical | 12 | | examiner's certificate of death and shall sign the medical
| 13 | | certification within 48 hours after death, except as provided | 14 | | by regulation
in special problem cases. If the decedent was | 15 | | under the age of 18 years at the time of his or her death, and | 16 | | the death was due to injuries suffered as a result of a motor | 17 | | vehicle backing over a child, or if the death occurred due to | 18 | | the power window of a motor vehicle, the coroner or medical | 19 | | examiner must send a copy of the medical certification, with | 20 | | information documenting that the death was due to a vehicle | 21 | | backing over the child or that the death was caused by a power | 22 | | window of a vehicle, to the Department of Children and Family | 23 | | Services. The Department of Children and Family Services shall | 24 | | (i) collect this information for use by Child Death Review | 25 | | Teams and (ii) compile and maintain this information as part of | 26 | | its Annual Child Death Review Team Report to the General |
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| 2 | | (3.5) The medical certification of cause of death shall | 3 | | expressly provide
an
opportunity for the person completing the
| 4 | | certification to indicate that the death was caused in whole or | 5 | | in part by a
dementia-related disease, Parkinson's Disease, or | 6 | | Parkinson-Dementia Complex.
| 7 | | (4) When the deceased was a veteran of any war of the | 8 | | United States, the
funeral director shall prepare a | 9 | | "Certificate of Burial of U. S. War Veteran",
as prescribed and | 10 | | furnished by the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs,
and | 11 | | submit such certificate to the Illinois Department of Veterans' | 12 | | Affairs
monthly.
| 13 | | (5) When a death is presumed to have occurred in this State | 14 | | but the
body cannot be located, a death certificate may be | 15 | | prepared by the State
Registrar upon receipt of an order of a | 16 | | court of competent jurisdiction
which includes the finding of | 17 | | facts required to complete the death
certificate. Such death | 18 | | certificate shall be marked "Presumptive" and shall
show on its | 19 | | face the date of the registration and shall identify the court
| 20 | | and the date of the judgment.
| 21 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
| 22 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 23 | | 2011.".
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