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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 301 By: Bergstrom
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to medicolegal investigati ons;
directing the Chief Medical Examiner to conduct
certain review and submit recommendations to the
Legislature and the Governor by certain date; stating
criteria of recommendations; providing for
codification; and providing an effective date .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STAT E OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 938.1 of Title 63, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
The Chief Medical Examiner shall conduct a review of the
necessity of the requirement provided by Section 938 of Title 63 of
the Oklahoma Statutes that a medicolegal investigation be conducted
on every dead body that is to be transported out of state, and shall
submit to the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the S peaker of
the House of Representatives and the Governor no later than November
1, 2022, recommendations on whether to modify or remove the
requirement. The recommendations may in clude, but shall not be
limited to:
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1. Types of deaths that should or should not qualify;
2. What, if any, documentation beyond that currently required
by law should be required of the out-of-state funeral director or
the person legally entitled to take custody of the dead body;
3. Authorized modes of transport of the dead body; and
4. Laws, rules or procedures to ensure:
a. the compliance of the out-of-state funeral director
with applicable laws and rules of this state,
b. the timely provision by the out-of-state funeral
director and person legally entitled to take custody
of the dead body of documentation currently required
by law and any additional documentation deemed
necessary by the Chief Medical Examiner , and
c. the ability of a law enforcement officer of this
state, the district attorney and the Chief Medical
Examiner to investigate deaths as need ed including,
but not limited to, th rough the return of the dead
body to this state upon request of the respective
entity.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effecti ve November 1, 2021.
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