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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 18.5 as follows:
 
6    (410 ILCS 535/18.5)
7    Sec. 18.5. Electronic reporting system for death
8registrations. The State Registrar shall facilitate death
9registration by implementing an electronic reporting system.
10The system may be used to transfer information to individuals
11and institutions responsible for completing and filing
12certificates and related reports for deaths that occur in the
13State. The system shall be used to transfer information to the
14Department of Healthcare and Family Services not less often
15than once every 3-month period for the purpose of updating the
16roster of Medicaid recipients. The system shall be capable of
17storing and retrieving accurate and timely data and statistics
18for those persons and agencies responsible for vital records
19registration and administration. Upon establishment of such an
20electronic reporting system, but not later than January 1,
212011, the county clerk in the county in which a death occurred
22or the county clerk of the county where a decedent last
23resided, as indicated on the decedent's death certificate,

 

 

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1shall be authorized to issue certifications of death records
2from such system, and the State Registrar shall cause the
3electronic reporting system to provide for such capability. The
4Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall have
5access to the system to enhance its enforcement of the Cemetery
6Oversight Act.
7(Source: P.A. 96-327, eff. 8-11-09; 96-863, eff. 3-1-10.)