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Committee hears bill to expand and rename child mortality reviews to child fatality reviews
Summary
Substitute Senate Bill 51-63 would rename local child mortality reviews as child fatality reviews, expand the upper age covered to 19, and clarify data access and confidentiality rules to support prevention-focused reviews.
Substitute Senate Bill 51-63 would rename local "child mortality reviews" as "child fatality reviews," expand the age covered to include children up to 19 years old, and clarify when and which records local health departments may request for those reviews.
The bill’s sponsor, Senator Tina Orwell, told the committee the changes come from work by a statewide stakeholder group and from her own experience attending reviews. "If we're really gonna prevent child injuries and deaths, we need to understand what happened," Orwell said, urging the committee to consider the bill’s records-access provisions.
By way of background, Luke Wickham, committee counsel, described the review process as a systematic, multidisciplinary examination of factors that contribute to a child's death and said the purpose is "to identify and address preventable…
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