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                                     LRB093 05494 MKM 15144 a

 1                     AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 691

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill  691  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 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,   moneys   in   the   Fund,  subject  to
14    appropriation, may be used by the Department for the  purpose
15    of  implementing  an  electronic  reporting  system for death
16    registrations as  provided  in  Section  18.5  of  this  Act.
17    Before  the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd
18    General Assembly and on and after January 1, 2003, moneys  in
19    the  Fund, subject to appropriations, may be used as follows:
20    (i) 25% by the Illinois Law  Enforcement  Training  Standards
21    Board  for the purpose of training coroners, deputy coroners,
22    forensic  pathologists,  and  police  officers  for  homicide
 
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 1    investigations, (ii) 25% for  grants  by  the  Department  of
 2    Public Health by the Illinois Necropsy Board for distribution
 3    to  all  local  county  coroners  and  medical  examiners  or
 4    officials  charged  with  the duties set forth under Division
 5    3-3 of the Counties Code, who have  a  different  title,  for
 6    equipment and lab facilities for local county coroners, (iii)
 7    25%  by  the  Department  of Public Health for the purpose of
 8    setting up a statewide database  of  death  certificates  and
 9    implementing   an   electronic  reporting  system  for  death
10    registrations pursuant to Section 18.5, and (iv)  25%  for  a
11    grant by the Department of Public Health to local registrars.
12    (Source:  P.A.  91-382,  eff.  7-30-99;  92-16, eff. 6-28-01;
13    92-141, eff. 7-24-01.)".