Oklahoma 2022 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB301 Compare Versions

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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
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57	57	SENATE BILL 301 By: Bergstrom
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to medicolegal investigati ons;
66	66	directing the Chief Medical Examiner to conduct
67	67	certain review and submit recommendations to the
68	68	Legislature and the Governor by certain date; stating
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75	75	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STAT E OF OKLAHOMA:
76	76	SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
77	77	in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 938.1 of Title 63, unless there
78	78	is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
79	79	The Chief Medical Examiner shall conduct a review of the
80	80	necessity of the requirement provided by Section 938 of Title 63 of
81	81	the Oklahoma Statutes that a medicolegal investigation be conducted
82	82	on every dead body that is to be transported out of state, and shall
83	83	submit to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the S peaker of
84	84	the House of Representatives and the Governor no later than November
85	85	1, 2022, recommendations on whether to modify or remove the
86	86	requirement. The recommendations may in clude, but shall not be
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139	139	1. Types of deaths that should or should not qualify;
140	140	2. What, if any, documentation beyond that currently required
141	141	by law should be required of the out-of-state funeral director or
142	142	the person legally entitled to take custody of the dead body;
143	143	3. Authorized modes of transport of the dead body; and
144	144	4. Laws, rules or procedures to ensure:
145	145	a. the compliance of the out-of-state funeral director
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147	147	b. the timely provision by the out-of-state funeral
148	148	director and person legally entitled to take custody
149	149	of the dead body of documentation currently required
150	150	by law and any additional documentation deemed
151	151	necessary by the Chief Medical Examiner , and
152	152	c. the ability of a law enforcement officer of this
153	153	state, the district attorney and the Chief Medical
154	154	Examiner to investigate deaths as need ed including,
155	155	but not limited to, th rough the return of the dead
156	156	body to this state upon request of the respective
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158	158	SECTION 2. This act shall become effecti ve November 1, 2021.
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