House File 2318 - Reprinted HOUSE FILE 2318 BY COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2067) (As Amended and Passed by the House March 15, 2012 ) A BILL FOR An Act relating to the transmission and recording of certain 1 death certificates and including effective date provisions. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 HF 2318 (3) 84 aw/sc

H.F. 2318 Section 1. Section 144.26, subsection 3, Code Supplement 1 2011, is amended to read as follows: 2 3. a. The county in which a dead body is found is the 3 county of death. If death occurs in a moving conveyance, 4 the county in which the dead body is first removed from the 5 conveyance is the county of death. 6 b. If a decedent died outside of the county of the 7 decedent’s residence, the state registrar shall send a copy 8 of the decedent’s death certificate and any amendments to the 9 county registrar of the county of the decedent’s residence. 10 The county registrar shall record a death certificate received 11 pursuant to this paragraph in the same records in which the 12 death certificate of a decedent who died within the county 13 is recorded. The state registrar may provide the county 14 registrars with electronic access to vital records in lieu of 15 the requirements of this paragraph. 16 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT. This Act, being deemed of 17 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 18 -1- HF 2318 (3) 84 aw/sc 1/ 1