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HB 1558 Adult fatality review teams, local and regional; established, penalty.
Introduced by: Thomas Davis Rust | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Local and regional adult fatality review teams; penalty. Allows for the creation of local or regional adult fatality review teams upon the initiative of any local or regional law-enforcement agency, department of social services, emergency medical services agency, attorney for the Commonwealth's office, or community services board. The bill provides that such teams may review the death of any person age 60 years or older, or any adult age 18 years or older who is incapacitated, who resides in the Commonwealth and who is in need of temporary or emergency protective services (i) who was the subject of an adult protective services or law-enforcement investigation; (ii) whose death was due to abuse, neglect, or exploitation or acts suggesting abuse, neglect, or exploitation; or (iii) whose death came under the jurisdiction of or was investigated by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner as occurring in any suspicious, unusual, or unnatural manner. A violation of the confidentiality of the review process is punishable as a Class 3 misdemeanor.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15102298D pdf | impact statement
- 01/22/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15103992D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/19/15 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1558ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/16/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0108) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/07/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15102298D
- 01/07/15 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/22/15 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (19-Y 2-N)
- 01/22/15 House: Committee substitute printed 15103992D-H1
- 01/23/15 House: Read first time
- 01/26/15 House: Read second time
- 01/26/15 House: Committee substitute agreed to 15103992D-H1
- 01/26/15 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1558H1
- 01/27/15 House: Read third time and passed House (92-Y 7-N)
- 01/27/15 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (92-Y 7-N)
- 01/28/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/28/15 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/12/15 Senate: Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/15 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/15 Senate: Read third time
- 02/16/15 Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/15 House: Enrolled
- 02/19/15 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1558ER)
- 02/19/15 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/20/15 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/23/15 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/23/15
- 02/23/15 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, Sunday, March 29, 2015
- 03/16/15 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 108 (effective 7/1/15)
- 03/16/15 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0108)