Sec. 5. (a) The Indiana department of health shall acquire information regarding the deaths of Indiana residents occurring in each of the other states from those states or from the State and Territorial Exchange of Vital Events (STEVE) System and Electronic Verification of Vital Events (EVVE) System, administered by the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems. The Indiana department of health may offer to share with each other state information regarding the deaths of the other state's residents in Indiana.
(b) At least once each month, the Indiana department of health shall forward that information as provided in section 2.1 of this chapter.