Bills › 90th General Assembly
Relating to the accurate completion and the correction of death certificates
Topics:State governmentHealth care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 7, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2024
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Department of Health and Human Services will allow people to fix mistakes on death certificates if they provide proof of the error. To prevent future mistakes, the state will also create training standards for the people responsible for filling out these official documents.1
Read the official explanation
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.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 12, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.
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