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Committee consolidates autopsy-record rules and amends funeral-practice language in House Bill 1068

2323571 · February 17, 2025
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Summary

The Senate Human Services Committee advanced House Bill 1068 to move autopsy-record and image-release rules into a single chapter of state law and to amend funeral-practice language so licensed funeral-home employees may perform certain graveside services.

The Senate Human Services Committee voted 6-0 to advance House Bill 1068 after hearing from Kirby Krueger, director of Disease Control and Forensic Pathology at the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Krueger said the bill consolidates and clarifies statutes governing release of autopsy records, working papers, photographs and other visual or audio recordings into Title 23 of the North Dakota Century Code, and carries existing authorized releases into the single statute. "What basically what we're doing is we're taking parts of 44-04-18.18 and moving it all over 23,"…

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