Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

Filed: 3/18/2011

 

 


 

 


 
09700HB1658ham002LRB097 08042 ASK 53298 a

1
AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1658

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1658 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
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

 

 

09700HB1658ham002- 2 -LRB097 08042 ASK 53298 a

1    registration district in which 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
26within 48 hours after death by the physician in charge of the

 

 

09700HB1658ham002- 3 -LRB097 08042 ASK 53298 a

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

 

 

09700HB1658ham002- 4 -LRB097 08042 ASK 53298 a

1Assembly.
2    (3.5) The medical certification of cause of death shall
3expressly provide an opportunity for the person completing the
4certification to indicate that the death was caused in whole or
5in part by a dementia-related disease, Parkinson's Disease, or
6Parkinson-Dementia Complex.
7    (4) When the deceased was a veteran of any war of the
8United States, the funeral director shall prepare a
9"Certificate of Burial of U. S. War Veteran", as prescribed and
10furnished by the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs, and
11submit such certificate to the Illinois Department of Veterans'
12Affairs monthly.
13    (5) When a death is presumed to have occurred in this State
14but the body cannot be located, a death certificate may be
15prepared by the State Registrar upon receipt of an order of a
16court of competent jurisdiction which includes the finding of
17facts required to complete the death certificate. Such death
18certificate shall be marked "Presumptive" and shall show on its
19face the date of the registration and shall identify the court
20and 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,
232011.".