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.

                                                                                                  Jonah Houtz

This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.