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Senate adopts Health and Welfare changes to bill allowing court petitions for autopsy reports
Summary
Senate advanced S.210, a bill creating a probate-court petition process for access to autopsy reports after Health and Welfare recommended amendments; the measure sets affidavit, notice and 14‑day response procedures and allows the court to limit release and dissemination.
The Senate on second reading advanced S.210, an act that creates a narrow, court‑supervised process for some individuals to obtain autopsy reports.
Senator Cummings, the senator from Washington District, said the bill grew from “a constituent’s request” after a family could not learn how a daughter had died because an estranged parent obtained custody and the family lost access. Cummings told colleagues the bill is intended to provide “guardrails around who can have access and under what conditions.”
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