Public Act 93-0045

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    AN ACT in relation to public health.

    Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section  5.  The Vital Records Act is amended by changing
Section 25.5 as follows:

    (410 ILCS 535/25.5)
    Sec.  25.5.  Death  Certificate  Surcharge   Fund.    The
additional  $2 fee for certified copies of death certificates
and fetal death certificates must be deposited into the Death
Certificate Surcharge Fund, a special  fund  created  in  the
State  treasury.   Beginning 30 days after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly and until
January 1, 2003 and then beginning again on July 1, 2003  and
until   July   1,  2005,  moneys  in  the  Fund,  subject  to
appropriation, may be used by the Department for the  purpose
of  implementing  an  electronic  reporting  system for death
registrations as  provided  in  Section  18.5  of  this  Act.
Before  the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd
General Assembly, and on and after January 1, 2003 and  until
July  1,  2003,  and on and after July 1, 2005, moneys in the
Fund, subject to appropriations, may be used as follows:  (i)
25%  by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board
for  the  purpose  of  training  coroners,  deputy  coroners,
forensic  pathologists,  and  police  officers  for  homicide
investigations, (ii) 25% for  grants  by  the  Department  of
Public Health by the Illinois Necropsy Board for distribution
to  all  local  county  coroners  and  medical  examiners  or
officials  charged  with  the duties set forth under Division
3-3 of the Counties Code, who have  a  different  title,  for
equipment and lab facilities for local county coroners, (iii)
25%  by  the  Department  of Public Health for the purpose of
setting up a statewide database  of  death  certificates  and
implementing   an   electronic  reporting  system  for  death
registrations pursuant to Section 18.5, and (iv)  25%  for  a
grant by the Department of Public Health to local registrars.
(Source:  P.A.  91-382,  eff.  7-30-99;  92-16, eff. 6-28-01;
92-141, eff. 7-24-01.)

    Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act  takes  effect  on
July 1, 2003.