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Committee moves bill to centralize autopsy records and clarify release rules
Summary
House Bill 1068, which reorganizes language on autopsy reports, working papers and images into Title 23 and clarifies who may receive those records, received a unanimous do-pass recommendation from the Senate Human Services Committee.
The Senate Human Services Committee voted 6-0 to give a do-pass recommendation to House Bill 1068, which consolidates statutory language about autopsy records, working papers and visual materials and clarifies the conditions under which those records may be released.
Kirby Krueger, director of Disease Control and Forensic Pathology at the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services, told the committee the bill moves provisions from North Dakota Century Code 44-04-18.18 into Title 23 to create a single statutory location for records and image-release rules. "All of the current authorized releases outlined and…
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