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HB 789 Exhumations; clerk of circuit court to send notice to next of kin, exception.
Introduced by: Les R. Adams | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Exhumations; notice to next of kin. Establishes procedures for notification of the next of kin of a dead person upon receipt by the circuit court of a report regarding an investigation that requires an exhumation or filing of a petition for exhumation. The bill provides that in cases in which the exhumation is requested as part of an investigation by the Chief Medical Examiner or other medical examiner, upon request of the attorney for the Commonwealth and a finding that good cause exists, a judge may order for a period not to exceed 90 days that notification of the next of kin of the dead person be withheld, the report and order for exhumation be sealed, and any parties involved in the investigation or exhumation not disclose to the next of kin of the dead person or to any other person that the court may deem appropriate that the investigation or exhumation has occurred. Such order may be extended for additional periods of up to 90 days upon petition of the attorney for the Commonwealth and a finding that good cause for such extension exists.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100957D pdf
- 02/09/16 House: Committee substitute printed 16104937D-H1 pdf
- 02/29/16 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB789ER) pdf
- 03/11/16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/12/16 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16100957D
- 01/12/16 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/20/16 House: Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2
- 02/09/16 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/16 House: Committee substitute printed 16104937D-H1
- 02/10/16 House: Read first time
- 02/11/16 House: Read second time
- 02/11/16 House: Committee substitute agreed to 16104937D-H1
- 02/11/16 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB789H1
- 02/12/16 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE(99-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/16 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/15/16 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/22/16 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/16 Senate: Read third time
- 02/24/16 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/24/16 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/24/16 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/24/16 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/16 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/26/16 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (94-Y 0-N)
- 02/26/16 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (94-Y 0-N)
- 02/29/16 House: Enrolled
- 02/29/16 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB789ER)
- 02/29/16 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/03/16 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/04/16 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/4/16
- 03/04/16 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 11, 2016
- 03/11/16 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 356 (effective 7/1/16)
- 03/11/16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0356)