HB1261ham003 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Keith Farnham

Filed: 4/7/2011

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1261

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1261, AS AMENDED, by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

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

(410 ILCS 535/5) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-5)

Sec. 5. (1) The State Registrar of Vital Records shall:

(a) Administer and enforce this Act and the rules and regulations issued hereunder;

(b) Direct, supervise, and issue instructions necessary to the efficient administration of a statewide system of vital records, the Office of Vital Records, and be custodian of its records;

(c) Direct, supervise, and control all activities of local and subregistrars;

(d) Prescribe and distribute such forms as are required by this Act and the rules and regulations issued hereunder;

(e) Arrange the certificates in a systematic manner; prepare and maintain a comprehensive index; permanently preserve and keep all such records either in the original or in photographic or micro-photographic form;

(f) Prepare and publish reports of vital statistics of this State, and such other reports as may be required by the Department.

(g) Prepare and transmit monthly a report to each county assessor and each mass transit district indicating the name, address, date of birth, date of death, and social security number of each decedent who resided within the county or mass transit district and died within the reporting period. The State Registrar of Vital Records shall adopt rules to implement this subsection (g).

(2) The State Registrar of Vital Records may delegate such functions and duties as are necessary to properly carry out the provisions of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 76-678.)".