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Senators weigh bill after sheriffs report mortuaries declining post‑accident blood draws
Summary
Sen. Myron Dorn introduced LB56 to require medical facilities or mortuaries to comply with law enforcement requests for post‑mortem blood draws after certain fatal vehicle crashes; funeral directors and mortuary representatives testified that the procedure is outside their scope of practice and raised training and liability concerns.
Sen. Myron Dorn, representing District 30, introduced LB56 after the Gage County Sheriff's Office reported that local mortuaries and a hospital declined repeated requests for blood draws in fatal motor vehicle crashes, a procedure Dorn said state statute (cited in testimony as 60-6102) currently requires when a driver or pedestrian dies within four hours of an accident.
Dorn told the committee his review showed two options: require mortuaries and medical facilities to comply with a peace officer’s request for a blood draw under the existing statute, or eliminate the statute altogether. He said local officials and sheriffs raised two…
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