Relating to the accurate completion and the correction of death certificates

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 7, 2024
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2024
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to the accurate completion and the correction of death certificates. The bill provides that the department of health and human services (HHS) shall provide for the correction and substitution of a death certificate when substantiated evidence of a mistake is presented to the state registrar within months of the filing of the death certificate.41 (amending local records). The bill also requires HHS, in consultation with the state medical examiner, county medical examiners, the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics, the board of mortuary science, and the department of veterans affairs, to implement training standards for individuals with a duty related to a death certificate to ensure the accurate completion and filing of a medical certification of death and a death certificate.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Senate subcommittee

Named February 12, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Lynn Evans REmail
• Sen. Kevin Alons REmail
• Sen. Zach Wahls DEmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§144.26

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works