NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 6/6/2012.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 12-1041
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Labuda, Hullinghorst, Schafer S., Young,
      Summers, McNulty;
      also SENATOR(S) Guzman, Aguilar, Bacon, Boyd, Foster, Heath, Hodge,
      Morse, Newell, Nicholson, Steadman, Tochtrop, Williams S.
      
      
      Concerning the creation of an electronic death registration
           system in the department of public health and environment,
           and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 25-2-110, amend (1)
      as follows:
      
           25-2-110.  Certificates of death - repeal. (1) (a)  A certificate of
      death for each death, including a stillborn death, which that occurs in
      Colorado shall must be filed with the state registrar or as otherwise directed
      by the state registrar, within five days after such the death occurs and prior
      to final disposition. and shall be registered The state registrar shall
      register the certificate if it has been completed in accordance with this
      section. Every certificate of death shall must identify the decedent's social
      security number, if available. If the place of death is unknown but the dead
      body is found in Colorado, the certificate of death shall must be completed
      and filed in accordance with this section. The place where the body is found
      shall must be shown as the place of death. If the date of death is unknown,
      it shall the date must be determined by approximation.
      
           (b) (I)  The department of public health and environment
      shall create and the state registrar shall use an electronic
      death registration system for the purpose of collecting death
      information from funeral directors, coroners, physicians, local
      registrars, health facilities, and other authorized individuals, as
      determined by the department. Death information submitted
      electronically by a funeral director, coroner, physician, local
      registrar, health facility, or authorized individual, as determined
      by the department, to the electronic death registration system
      for purposes of fulfilling the requirements of this section satisfies
      the signature and filing requirements of this section and section
      30-10-606, C.R.S.
      
           (II)  No later than two years after the effective date of this
      paragraph (b), the department shall report to the health and
      human services committee of the senate and the health and
      environment committee of the house of representatives, or their
      successor committees, on the development and implementation  of
      the electronic death registration system. The department shall
      include in the report information regarding whether the
      department has modified staffing levels and fees since the
      implementation of the system. This subparagraph (II) is repealed,
      effective September 1, 2014.
      
           SECTION 2.  Appropriation. (1)  In addition to any other
      appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the vital
      statistics records cash fund created in section 25-2-121 (2) (b), Colorado
      Revised Statutes, not otherwise appropriated, to the department of public
      health and environment, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012, the sum
      of $743,940, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be allocated to the
      center for health and environmental information division for the
      implementation of this act as follows:
      
           (a)  $665,000 for the health statistics and vital records subdivision,
      operating expenses; and
      
           (b)  $78,940 for the information technology subdivision,
      management and administration of OIT.
      
           (2)  In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby
      appropriated to the governor - lieutenant governor - state planning and
      budgeting, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012, the sum of $78,940,
      or so much thereof as may be necessary, for allocation to the office of
      information technology, statewide IT management, for the provision of
      project management services to the department of public health and
      environment related to the implementation of this act. Said sum is from
      reappropriated funds received from the department of public health and
      environment out of the appropriation made in subsection (1) (b) of this
      section.
      
           SECTION 3.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      8, 2012, if adjournment sine die is on May 9, 2012); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2012
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
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      Frank McNulty                      Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO