HB 819
Medical Examiners' Duties
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Bill overview
Medical Examiners' Duties; Specifies autopsy requirements for certain cases involving sudden & unexpected deaths in young individuals; requires medical examiners to document certain information in autopsy reports for such cases; requires medical examiners to report specified cases to national Sudden Unexpected Infant Death & Sudden Death in Young Case Registry in accordance with protocols established by DOH & United States Centers for Disease Control & Prevention; requires department to impose certain administrative penalties against medical examiners for failure to report such cases in specified timeframe; provides that compliance with specified provisions is deemed permissible disclosure for purposes of state & federal medical privacy laws.
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