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SF 2539 Senate Long Description

Providing for certified stillbirth records under the vital statistics+ act, defining stillbirth and eliminating or replacing certain references +to fetal death or dead fetus; requiring the filing of stillbirth records with +the state or local registrar or a designated mortician within a certain number +of days of the birth and before final disposition; requiring the commissioner of+ health to establish a registration mechanism and to amend certain rules to +conform to the requirement; providing for retroactive application; repealing a +certain statutory provision and certain rules requiring the reporting of +fetal deaths(mk)