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Committee advances bill to add online training for coroners and bar felons from deputy coroner posts
Summary
House Bill 1014 would permit online training for county coroners, require extra classes, and make people with felony convictions ineligible to serve as deputy coroners; sponsors said the change protects investigative integrity. Committee members cited a past case prompting concern; the bill passed by voice vote.
Speaker 3 presented House Bill 1014, saying the bill "allow[s] online training for county coroners to provide for additional training classes for county coroners and to provide that a person with a felony conviction is not eligible to be a deputy coroner." The sponsor emphasized that "a coroner is…
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