HLS 20RS-970 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 468
BY REPRESENTATIVE AMEDEE
CORONERS: Provides relative to coroner reports on vaccine adverse events
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 13:5713(C)(2), relative to coroners; to provide relative to the
3 duties of coroners; to provide relative to autopsies; to add Sudden Unexpected Infant
4 Death to circumstances requiring notification to the parish health unit; to require
5 coroners to submit a vaccine adverse event reporting system report; and to provide
6 for related matters.
7Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 13:5713(C)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
9 ยง5713. Duties; autopsies and investigations
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11 C.
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13 (2) If the coroner finds that the cause of death was Sudden Infant Death
14 Syndrome or Sudden Unexpected Infant Death, he shall notify the director of the
15 parish health unit within forty-eight hours after such determination and shall file a
16 Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) report.
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18 (5) When the death of an infant occurs within thirty days of the infant's last
19 vaccination, the coroner shall file a VAERS report.
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CODING: Words in struck through type are deletions from existing law; words underscored
are additions. HLS 20RS-970 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 468
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 468 Original 2020 Regular Session Amedee
Abstract: Adds SUID to circumstances in which the coroner must notify the parish health
unit and requires the coroner to file a VAERS report when the cause of death is
SIDS or SUID and when the infant's death occurred within 30 days of last
vaccination.
Present law provides that if the coroner finds that the cause of death was Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome, he shall notify the director of the parish health unit within 48 hours after
such determination.
Proposed law retains present law and adds Sudden Unexpected Infant Death to
circumstances in which the coroner shall notify the director of the parish health unit within
48 hours after such determination.
Proposed law requires the coroner to file a VAERS report when the cause of death was
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Proposed law also requires the coroner to file a VAERS report when the infant died within
30 days of the infant's last vaccination.
(Amends R.S. 13:5713(C)(2))
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