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Panel approves change clarifying when coroners send hospitalized overdose deaths to crime lab
2841208 · March 6, 2025
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Summary
Lawmakers approved House Bill 1568 to replace the vague phrase 'significant interval' with 'inpatient hospitalization' for determining whether certain overdose and poisoning deaths go to the crime lab for full postmortem testing.
Rep. Paul Childress, joined by county coroner Kevin Cleghorn, told the Senate committee HB 1568 clarifies when coroners should send suspected drug‑overdose, alcohol‑overdose and poisoning deaths to the state crime lab for postmortem examination.
Childress said Act 553 (2023) was broadly supported but coroners and medical examiners found the…
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