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HB0691 Enrolled                      LRB093 05494 MKM 05585 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to public health.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Vital Records Act is amended by  changing
 5    Section 25.5 as follows:

 6        (410 ILCS 535/25.5)
 7        Sec.   25.5.  Death   Certificate  Surcharge  Fund.   The
 8    additional $2 fee for certified copies of death  certificates
 9    and fetal death certificates must be deposited into the Death
10    Certificate  Surcharge  Fund,  a  special fund created in the
11    State treasury.  Beginning 30 days after the  effective  date
12    of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly and until
13    January  1, 2003 and then beginning again on July 1, 2003 and
14    until  July  1,  2005,  moneys  in  the  Fund,   subject   to
15    appropriation,  may be used by the Department for the purpose
16    of implementing an  electronic  reporting  system  for  death
17    registrations  as  provided  in  Section  18.5  of  this Act.
18    Before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the  92nd
19    General  Assembly, and on and after January 1, 2003 and until
20    July 1, 2003, and on and after July 1, 2005,  moneys  in  the
21    Fund,  subject to appropriations, may be used as follows: (i)
22    25% by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards  Board
23    for  the  purpose  of  training  coroners,  deputy  coroners,
24    forensic  pathologists,  and  police  officers  for  homicide
25    investigations,  (ii)  25%  for  grants  by the Department of
26    Public Health by the Illinois Necropsy Board for distribution
27    to  all  local  county  coroners  and  medical  examiners  or
28    officials charged with the duties set  forth  under  Division
29    3-3  of  the  Counties  Code, who have a different title, for
30    equipment and lab facilities for local county coroners, (iii)
31    25% by the Department of Public Health  for  the  purpose  of
 
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 1    setting  up  a  statewide  database of death certificates and
 2    implementing  an  electronic  reporting  system   for   death
 3    registrations  pursuant  to  Section 18.5, and (iv) 25% for a
 4    grant by the Department of Public Health to local registrars.
 5    (Source: P.A. 91-382,  eff.  7-30-99;  92-16,  eff.  6-28-01;
 6    92-141, eff. 7-24-01.)

 7        Section  99.   Effective  date.  This Act takes effect on
 8    July 1, 2003.