DEATH REC. REPORTING & INVESTIGATION                   H.B. 5615 (S-1) & 5616 (S-1):

                                                                                                                                                                                SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                                                                                REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

House Bill 5615 (Substitute S-1 as reported)

House Bill 5616 (Substitute S-1 as reported)

Sponsor:   Representative Julie Calley (H.B. 5615)

                            Representative Tyrone Carter (H.B. 5616)

House Committee:   Local Government and Municipal Finance

Senate Committee:   Health Policy and Human Services

CONTENT

House Bill 5615 (S-1)  would amend Part 28 (Vital Records) of the Public Health Code to do the following:

 --     Require a funeral director who first assumed custody of a dead body to submit a report of the death using the web-based application system established by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for the registration of deaths.

 --     Require the medical certification portion to be completed and certified by the county medical examiner if an investigation of the death were required.

 --     Require the medical certification portion to be submitted using the web-based application system established by the DHHS, beginning one year after the bill's effective date.

 --     Prohibit a physician, or his or her authorized representative, who was properly presented a medical certification by a funeral director from neglecting or refusing to certify a death record and from neglecting or refusing to furnish information in his or her possession to the funeral director.

 --     Add the failure to comply with the Code's requirements concerning the medical certification portion of a death record to the list of grounds for which disciplinary subcommittee action may be taken.

House Bill 5616 (S-1)  would amend Public Act 181 of 1953, which governs the investigations of the causes of death in certain instances, to modify circumstances under which a county medical examiner would have to investigate the cause and manner of death of an individual to reflect changes proposed in  House Bill 5615 (S-1).

House Bill 5616 (S-1) is tie-barred to House Bill 5615.

MCL 333.2804 et al. (H.B. 5615)                         Legislative Analyst:   Stephen P. Jackson

            52.202 & 52.203 (H.B. 5616)

FISCAL IMPACT

The bills would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.

Date Completed:   12-6-22                                                                   Fiscal Analyst:   Ellyn Ackerman

                                                                                                                                                                                      Joe Carrasco, Jr.

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