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House Bill 15‑68 amended to clarify when coroners must send drug‑related deaths to crime lab; witnesses describe operational benefits
Summary
Representative Paul Childers amended House Bill 15‑68 to add a Senate sponsor and to change language that determines when county coroners must send suspected drug, alcohol or poison deaths to the crime lab; the Arkansas Coroners Association and the state crime lab director testified in support of the clarifying language.
At a meeting of the STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS- HOUSE committee (date not specified), Representative Paul Childers introduced an amendment and presented House Bill 15‑68, a bill that clarifies when county coroners must send suspected drug, alcohol or poison deaths for forensic autopsy and toxicology testing.
Representative Paul Childers, State Representative for District 83, said the bill deletes the term "significant interval" from existing law and instead adds a definition of "hospitalized" so coroners and crime labs can distinguish inpatient cases (where medical…
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