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90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 2254: Relating to the accurate completion and the correction of death certificates

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

What it does

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.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named February 12, 2024

  • Sen. Lynn Evans (R) · lynn.evans@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Kevin Alons (R) · kevin.alons@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Zach Wahls (D) · zach.wahls@legis.iowa.gov

In plain words

  1. February 7, 2024Filed in the Senate and sent to the Health and Human Services committee
  2. February 12, 2024Senate subcommittee named: Evans, Alons and Wahls

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/SF2254