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IN SB0215
Bill
AI Summary
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Hospitals must provide complete health records to coroners when an individual dies on hospital premises in apparent good health or in an apparently sudden, suspicious, unusual, or unnatural manner
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"Health records" includes written, electronic, or printed information about diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, mental health records, alcohol and drug abuse records, and emergency ambulance service records
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Coroners must provide a complete copy of the decedent's health records to pathologists or medical examiners if an autopsy is being performed
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Coroners may provide health records to prosecuting attorneys or law enforcement agencies investigating the individual's death
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Unauthorized disclosure of confidential health records obtained under this section is a Class A misdemeanor
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Effective date: July 1, 2018
Legislative Description
Coroners and health records. Requires a hospital to provide a coroner with an individual's health records if the individual dies on hospital premises when in apparent good health or in an apparently sudden, suspicious, unusual, or unnatural manner. Requires the coroner to provide the health records to a pathologist or medical examiner if an autopsy is to be performed.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services
1/3/2018