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2005 SESSION

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SB 857 Adult Fatality Review Team; created, report.

Introduced by: Janet D. Howell | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Adult Fatality Review Team; duties; membership; confidentiality; etc.; penalties; report.  Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Social Services and the Chief Medical Examiner to develop an Adult Fatality Review Team (“Team”) to conduct a retrospective review of suspicious deaths of certain adults for the purpose of identifying interventions that may reduce similar deaths in the future. The Team is charged with reviewing the death of any incapacitated adult aged 18 or older, and any adult aged 60 or older, whose death was due to violent or unnatural circumstances.  The bill sets forth duties, membership, confidentiality, reporting, and other requirements for the Team.

FULL TEXT

• 01/10/05  Senate: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 051731116  pdf
• 01/21/05  Senate: Committee substitute printed 051743744-S1  pdf | impact statement

HISTORY

• 01/10/05  Senate: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 051731116
• 01/10/05  Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
• 01/21/05  Senate: Reported from R. & S. S. w/substitute (15-Y 0-N)
• 01/21/05  Senate: Committee substitute printed 051743744-S1
• 01/24/05  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 01/24/05  Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (38-Y 0-N)
• 01/25/05  Senate: Read second time
• 01/25/05  Senate: Reading of substitute waived
• 01/25/05  Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 051743744-S1
• 01/25/05  Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB857S1
• 01/26/05  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/05  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (37-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/05  Senate: Rec. of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/05  Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER R (37-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/05  Senate: Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/05  Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (37-Y 0-N)
• 01/26/05  Senate: Communicated to House
• 02/09/05  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/09/05  House: Read first time
• 02/09/05  House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
• 02/15/05  House: Assigned to App. sub-committee: Health & Human Resources
• 02/15/05  House: Reported from H. W. I. (20-Y 2-N)
• 02/15/05  House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
• 02/16/05  House: Tabled in Appropriations (24-Y 0-N)