Sen. Heather Steans
Filed: 3/9/2009
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1354 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1354 as follows:

 
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on page 1, line 5, by replacing "Section" with "Sections 1 
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and"; and
 
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on page 1, immediately below line 5, by inserting the 
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following:
 
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    "Section 5. The Vital Records Act is amended  by changing 
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Section 1 as follows:
 



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



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    Sec. 1. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise 
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requires: 

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    (1) "Vital records" means records of births, deaths, fetal 
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deaths,
marriages, dissolution of marriages, and data related 
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thereto.

 


 






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    (2) "System of vital records" includes the registration, 
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collection,
preservation, amendment, and certification of 
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vital records, and
activities related thereto.

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    (3) "Filing" means the presentation of a certificate, 
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report, or
other record provided for in this Act, of a birth, 
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death, fetal death,
adoption, marriage, or dissolution of 
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marriage, for registration by the Office of Vital
Records.

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    (4) "Registration" means the acceptance by the Office of 
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Vital
Records and the incorporation in its official records of 
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certificates,
reports, or other records provided for in this 
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Act, of births, deaths,
fetal deaths, adoptions, marriages, or 
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dissolution of marriages.

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    (5) "Live birth" means the complete expulsion or extraction 
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from its
mother of a product of human conception, irrespective 
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of the duration of
pregnancy, which after such separation 
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breathes or shows any other
evidence of life such as beating of 
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the heart, pulsation of the
umbilical cord, or definite 
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movement of voluntary muscles, whether or
not the umbilical 
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cord has been cut or the placenta is attached.

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    (6) "Fetal death" means death prior to the complete 
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expulsion or
extraction from its mother of a product of human 
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conception,
irrespective of the duration of pregnancy; the 
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death is indicated by the
fact that after such separation the 
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fetus does not breathe or show any
other evidence of life such 
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as beating of the heart, pulsation of the
umbilical cord, or 
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definite movement of voluntary muscles.

 


 






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    (7) "Dead body" means a lifeless human body or parts of 
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such body or
bones thereof from the state of which it may 
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reasonably be concluded
that death has occurred.

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    (8) "Final disposition" means the burial, cremation, or 
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other
disposition of a dead human body or fetus or parts 
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thereof.

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    (9) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice 
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medicine in
Illinois or any other State.

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    (10) "Institution" means any establishment, public or 
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private, which
provides in-patient medical, surgical, or 
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diagnostic care or treatment,
or nursing, custodial, or 
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domiciliary care to 2 or more unrelated
individuals, or to 
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which persons are committed by law.

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    (11) "Department" means the Department of Public Health of 
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the State
of Illinois.

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    (12) "Director" means the Director of the Illinois 
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Department of
Public Health.

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    (13) "Medical treatment" means any surgical operation or 
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other medical procedure causing irreversible gender change. 
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(Source: P.A. 81-230.)"; and


 
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on page 2, by replacing line 13 through line 21 with the 
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following:
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    "(d) An affidavit by a physician that he has performed an 
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operation on a person has undergone medical treatment, and that 
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by reason of the medical treatment operation the sex 
 


 






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designation on such person's birth record should be changed. 
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The State Registrar of Vital"; and
 
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on page 2, by deleting line 24 through line 26; and
 
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on page 3, by deleting line 1 through line 4.