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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 396
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5191
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
(PH)
AN ACT CONCERNING SU DDEN UNEXPECTED DEATH IN EPILEPSY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) The Chief Medical 1
Examiner shall make a determination as to whether or not a person's 2
death was a sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, when (1) it requires 3
an autopsy pursuant to subsection (a) of section 19a-406 of the general 4
statutes in connection with (A) a sudden or unexpected death not 5
caused by a readily recognizable disease, or (B) a death under 6
suspicious circumstances, and (2) the deceased was diagnosed with 7
epilepsy. The Chief Medical Examiner shall note such determination 8
on the deceased's death certificate and issue a copy of such death 9
certificate to the North American Sudden Unexplained Death in 10
Epilepsy (SUDEP) Registry as soon as practicable after the completion 11
of the autopsy. For purposes of this section, "sudden unexpected death 12
in epilepsy" means the death of a person with epilepsy that is not 13
caused by injury, drowning or other known causes unrelated to 14
epilepsy. 15
Committee Bill No. 396
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require a medical examiner to make a determination as to whether
a deceased person with epilepsy suffered a sudden, unexpected death
in epilepsy.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. LESSER, 9th Dist.
S.B. 396