File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 266
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Guns
- Entitled:
-
Medical Examiner - Autopsy - Notification of Families
Requiring the medical examiner to notify the family of the deceased
prior to moving the body for an autopsy from the county where the
death occurred; and providing that, when possible, the medical
examiner shall allow the family to view the body prior to removal for
an autopsy.
House Action
- 1/27
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/5
- Hearing 2/25 at 1:00 p.m.
Senate Action
- No Action
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- AUTOPSIES
- DEATH -see also- WRONGFUL DEATH
- MEDICAL EXAMINERS
- NOTICES
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Health - General
- (
5-310
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)