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2023 SESSION
SB 1276 Autopsies; decedents in the custody of Department of Corrections.
Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Autopsies; decedents in the custody of Department of Corrections. Requires, if a decedent is an inmate in the custody of the Department of Corrections, that an autopsy be performed by the Chief Medical Examiner, an Assistant Chief Medical Examiner, or a pathologist with whom the State Health Commissioner has entered into an agreement. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024. This bill is identical to HB 1827.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104212D pdf | impact statement
- 01/26/23 Senate: Printed as engrossed 23104212D-E pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1276ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/24/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104212D
- 01/10/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/13/23 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Health
- 01/19/23 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/23 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/24/23 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/26/23 Senate: Read second time
- 01/26/23 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 01/26/23 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/26/23 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1276E
- 01/26/23 Senate: Printed as engrossed 23104212D-E
- 01/27/23 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/10/23 House: Read first time
- 02/10/23 House: Referred to Committee on Public Safety
- 02/17/23 House: Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/23 House: Read second time
- 02/22/23 House: Read third time
- 02/22/23 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/23 House: Reconsideration of House passage agreed to by House
- 02/22/23 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 03/07/23 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/23 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1276ER)
- 03/08/23 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/08/23 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/13/23 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023
- 03/13/23 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023
- 03/24/23 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 478 (effective 1/1/24)
- 03/24/23 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0478)