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House passes bills to speed medical certification of death certificates (HB4077, HB4078)
Summary
The House passed two bills to require timely physician certification of death records through the state’s secure electronic death-registration system; sponsors said the change will reduce delays families face when settling estates and funeral arrangements.
The Michigan House on April 22 passed two bills intended to modernize medical certification of death certificates by requiring physicians to use the state’s secure electronic death-registration system and by clarifying when the county medical examiner must certify a death.
Representative Rogers, who spoke on the package, said grieving families often cannot proceed with funerals, cremation, life-insurance claims or settling estates until a death…
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