House Sponsors: BRADY-SAVIANO-BURKE-HARTKE-HOWARD, HULTGREN, MILLER AND COLLINS. Senate Sponsors: WEAVER Short description: VITAL RECORDS-DEATH CERTIFICAT Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Vital Records Act. Allows the State Registrar of Vital Records to implement an electronic reporting system for death registrations. Provides that, in addition to any other fees charged by the local registrar or county clerk, the local registrar or county clerk must charge a $2 fee for each certified copy of a death certificate. Provides that the $2 fee must be transmitted to the State Registrar and deposited into the Death Certificate Surcharge Fund. Provides that moneys in the Death Certificate Surcharge Fund may be used to train deputy coroners, forensic pathologists, and police officers for homicide investigations and for implementing an electronic reporting system for death registrations. Effective immediately. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Further amends the Vital Records Act. Deletes a provision that local registrars may not charge a fee for other services that exceeds the fee charged by the State Registrar for those services. Provides that beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act and until January 1, 2003, moneys in the Death Certificate Surcharge Fund may be used by the Department of Public Health to implement an electronic reporting system for death registrations. Provides that after January 1, 2003, 25% of the moneys in the Death Certificate Surcharge Fund may be used for a grant by the Department of Public Health to local registrars (now, the grant is to the Cook County Health Department). HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 2. Further amends the Vital Records Act. Provides that fees imposed under the Act for searches of birth, death, and fetal death records may not be assessed against an organization chartered by Congress that requests a certificate for the purpose of death verification. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 92-0141 Last action date: JUL-24-2001 Location: House Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 2 SENATE - 0 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status