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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1649

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 1649, AS  AMENDED,
 3    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 4    following:

 5        "Section 5.  The Vital Records Act is amended  by  adding
 6    Section 20.5 as follows:

 7        (410 ILCS 535/20.5 new)
 8        Sec. 20.5.  Certificate of stillbirth.
 9        (a)  The State Registrar shall prescribe and distribute a
10    form  for  a certificate of stillbirth. The certificate shall
11    be in the same format as a certificate of live birth prepared
12    under Section 12 and shall be filed in the same manner  as  a
13    certificate of live birth.
14        (b)  After  each  fetal  death  that occurs in this State
15    after a gestation period of at least 26 completed weeks,  the
16    person who files a fetal death certificate in connection with
17    that  death  as  required  under  Section 20 shall, only upon
18    request by the woman who delivered the stillborn fetus,  also
19    prepare  a  certificate  of  stillbirth.   The  person  shall
20    prepare  the certificate on the form prescribed and furnished
21    by the State Registrar  and  in  accordance  with  the  rules
22    adopted by the State Registrar.
 
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 1        (c)  If  the stillborn's parent or parents do not wish to
 2    provide a name for the stillborn, the person who prepares the
 3    certificate of stillbirth shall leave blank any references to
 4    the stillborn's name.
 5        (d)  When a stillbirth  occurs  in  this  State  and  the
 6    stillbirth  has not been registered within one year after the
 7    delivery, a certificate marked "delayed"  may  be  filed  and
 8    registered  in  accordance  with  regulations  adopted by the
 9    State Registrar.  The certificate must show on its  face  the
10    date of registration.
11        (e)  In  the  case of a fetal death that occurred in this
12    State after a gestation period of at least 26 completed weeks
13    and before the effective date of this amendatory Act  of  the
14    93rd  General  Assembly,  a parent of the stillborn child may
15    request that the person who filed a fetal  death  certificate
16    in  connection  with  that death as required under Section 20
17    shall also prepare a certificate of stillbirth  with  respect
18    to  the  fetus.   If  a  parent  of  a stillborn makes such a
19    request under this subsection (e), the  person  who  filed  a
20    fetal  death  certificate  shall  prepare  the certificate of
21    stillbirth and file it with the designated  registrar  within
22    30 days after the request by the parent.

23        Section  99.  Effective  date. This Act takes effect upon
24    becoming law.".