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2015 SESSION

15101413D
HOUSE BILL NO. 1607
Offered January 14, 2015
Prefiled January 8, 2015
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-282.1, relating to per diem medicolegal death investigators.
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Patron-- Garrett
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Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 32.1-282.1 as follows:

§ 32.1-282.1. Per diem medicolegal death investigators.

The Chief Medical Examiner may appoint per diem medicolegal death investigators, who shall have knowledge of standards and procedures for medicolegal death investigations, to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with medicolegal death investigations. Per diem medicolegal death investigators shall be agents of the Commonwealth.