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MI SB0230
Bill
AI Summary
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Amends Michigan Public Health Code section 2843 to allow death records to be certified by funeral directors holding a limited license under MCL 339.1806a, in addition to fully licensed funeral directors under MCL 339.1801 to 339.1812.
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Expands the definition of "dead body" to include infants who survived an attempted abortion and later died, requiring funeral directors to report such deaths.
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Requires physicians to provide medical certification of death within 48 hours, with funeral directors filing death records with local registrars within 72 hours of death.
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Requires deaths of infants born alive after attempted abortion and surrendered under the Safe Delivery of Newborns Law to be reported as "Baby Doe" with parental and informant identities redacted.
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Enactment is contingent on Senate Bill No. 231 being enacted into law.
Legislative Description
Occupations; mortuary science; authorization of death record by limited license funeral director; allow. Amends sec. 2843 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.2843). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0231'13
Health, death
Last Action
Referred To Committee On Regulatory Reform
2/27/2013