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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB1378 Introduced 2/8/2011, by Sen. Christine Radogno SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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410 ILCS 535/18 | from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-18 |
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Amends the Vital Records Act. Provides that the person responsible for completing
the medical certification of cause of death for a death
certificate must note the presence of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus if it is a contributing factor to or the cause of death. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning public health.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Vital Records Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 18 as follows:
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| 6 | | (410 ILCS 535/18) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-18)
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| 7 | | Sec. 18. (1) Each death which occurs in this State shall be |
| 8 | | registered
by filing a death certificate with the local |
| 9 | | registrar
of the district in which the death occurred or the |
| 10 | | body was found, within
7 days after such death (within 5 days |
| 11 | | if the death occurs prior to
January 1, 1989) and prior to |
| 12 | | cremation or removal of the body from
the State, except when |
| 13 | | death is subject to investigation by the coroner or
medical |
| 14 | | examiner.
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| 15 | | (a) For the purposes of this Section, if the place of |
| 16 | | death is unknown,
a death certificate shall be filed in the |
| 17 | | registration district in which
a dead body is found, which |
| 18 | | shall be considered the place of death.
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| 19 | | (b) When a death occurs on a moving conveyance, the |
| 20 | | place where the body
is first removed from the conveyance |
| 21 | | shall be considered the place of death
and a death |
| 22 | | certificate shall be filed in the registration district in
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| 23 | | which such place is located.
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| 1 | | (c) The funeral director who first assumes
custody of a |
| 2 | | dead body shall be responsible for filing a completed death
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| 3 | | certificate. He shall obtain the personal data from the |
| 4 | | next
of kin or the best qualified person or source |
| 5 | | available; he shall enter
on the certificate the name, |
| 6 | | relationship,
and address of his informant; he shall enter |
| 7 | | the date, place, and method
of final disposition; he shall |
| 8 | | affix his own signature and enter his address;
and shall |
| 9 | | present the certificate to the person responsible for |
| 10 | | completing
the medical certification of cause of death. The |
| 11 | | person responsible for completing
the medical |
| 12 | | certification of cause of death must note the presence of |
| 13 | | methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus if it is a |
| 14 | | contributing factor to or the cause of death.
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| 15 | | (2) The medical certification shall be completed and signed |
| 16 | | within 48
hours after death by the physician in charge of the |
| 17 | | patient's care for the
illness or condition which resulted in |
| 18 | | death, except when death is subject
to the coroner's or medical |
| 19 | | examiner's investigation. In the absence of
the physician or |
| 20 | | with his approval, the medical certificate may be
completed and |
| 21 | | signed by his associate physician, the chief medical officer
of |
| 22 | | the institution in which death occurred or by the physician who
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| 23 | | performed an autopsy upon the decedent.
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| 24 | | (3) When a death occurs without medical attendance, or when |
| 25 | | it is otherwise
subject to the coroner's or medical examiner's |
| 26 | | investigation, the coroner
or medical examiner shall be |
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| 1 | | responsible for the completion of a coroner's
or medical |
| 2 | | examiner's certificate of death and shall sign the medical
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| 3 | | certification within 48 hours after death, except as provided |
| 4 | | by regulation
in special problem cases. If the decedent was |
| 5 | | under the age of 18 years at the time of his or her death, and |
| 6 | | the death was due to injuries suffered as a result of a motor |
| 7 | | vehicle backing over a child, or if the death occurred due to |
| 8 | | the power window of a motor vehicle, the coroner or medical |
| 9 | | examiner must send a copy of the medical certification, with |
| 10 | | information documenting that the death was due to a vehicle |
| 11 | | backing over the child or that the death was caused by a power |
| 12 | | window of a vehicle, to the Department of Children and Family |
| 13 | | Services. The Department of Children and Family Services shall |
| 14 | | (i) collect this information for use by Child Death Review |
| 15 | | Teams and (ii) compile and maintain this information as part of |
| 16 | | its Annual Child Death Review Team Report to the General |
| 17 | | Assembly.
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| 18 | | (3.5) The medical certification of cause of death shall |
| 19 | | expressly provide
an
opportunity for the person completing the
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| 20 | | certification to indicate that the death was caused in whole or |
| 21 | | in part by a
dementia-related disease, Parkinson's Disease, or |
| 22 | | Parkinson-Dementia Complex.
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| 23 | | (4) When the deceased was a veteran of any war of the |
| 24 | | United States, the
funeral director shall prepare a |
| 25 | | "Certificate of Burial of U. S. War Veteran",
as prescribed and |
| 26 | | furnished by the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs,
and |
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| 1 | | submit such certificate to the Illinois Department of Veterans' |
| 2 | | Affairs
monthly.
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| 3 | | (5) When a death is presumed to have occurred in this State |
| 4 | | but the
body cannot be located, a death certificate may be |
| 5 | | prepared by the State
Registrar upon receipt of an order of a |
| 6 | | court of competent jurisdiction
which includes the finding of |
| 7 | | facts required to complete the death
certificate. Such death |
| 8 | | certificate shall be marked "Presumptive" and shall
show on its |
| 9 | | face the date of the registration and shall identify the court
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| 10 | | and the date of the judgment.
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| 11 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)
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| 12 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 13 | | becoming law.
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