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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 birth resulting in 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.".