Illinois § 2
Full text of Illinois Illinois Compiled Statutes § 2, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 2.
In reporting every birth or still birth, physicians and others required to make such reports shall state on the birth certificate or still birth certificate, as the case may be, whether a blood test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen of blood taken from the woman who bore the child for which a birth or still birth certificate is filed, together with the date when the blood specimen was taken and the name of the laboratory making the test. In no event shall the birth or still birth certificate state the result of the test. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 708.) (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 104-71) Sec. 2. In reporting every birth or still birth, appropriate health care professionals required to make such reports shall state on the birth certificate or still birth certificate, as the case may be, whether a test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen of blood taken from the woman who bore the child for which a birth or still birth certificate is filed, together with the date when the specimen was taken and the name of the laboratory making the test. In no event shall the birth or still birth certificate state the result of the test. (Source: P.A. 104-71, eff. 1-1-26.)
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