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View NCGA Bill Details2015-2016 Session
House Bill 814 (Public) Filed Tuesday, April 14, 2015
AN ACT REQUIRING THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER TO ESTABLISH A MEDICAL EXAMINER TRAINING PROGRAM THAT INCLUDES TRAINING REGARDING SUDDEN UNEXPLAINED DEATH IN EPILEPSY DURING MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INVESTIGATIONS.
Intro. by Riddell.
Status: Ch. SL 2015-211 (House Action) (Aug 11 2015)

SOG comments (1):

Long title change

Submitted by jhenders@sog.unc.edu on

House committee substitute to the 1st edition changed the long title. Original long title was AN ACT REQUIRING THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER TO ESTABLISH A MEDICAL EXAMINER TRAINING PROGRAM AND STANDARD PROTOCOLS GOVERNING THE INVESTIGATION OF SUDDEN UNEXPLAINED DEATH IN EPILEPSY DURING MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INVESTIGATIONS.

Bill History:

H 814/S.L. 2015-211

Bill Summaries:

  • Bill H 814 (2015-2016)
    Summary date: Aug 12 2015 - View Summary

    AN ACT REQUIRING THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER TO ESTABLISH A MEDICAL EXAMINER TRAINING PROGRAM THAT INCLUDES TRAINING REGARDING SUDDEN UNEXPLAINED DEATH IN EPILEPSY DURING MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INVESTIGATIONS. Enacted August 11, 2015. Effective January 1, 2016.

    Health and Human Services, Health, Public Health
    GS 130A
  • Bill H 814 (2015-2016)
    Summary date: Jul 28 2015 - View Summary

    Senate amendment makes the following changes to the 3rd edition.

    Makes a technical correction in GS 130A-382.

    Health and Human Services, Health, Public Health
    GS 130A
  • Bill H 814 (2015-2016)
    Summary date: Jun 30 2015 - View Summary

    Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to the 2nd edition.

    Amends GS 130A-382 to provide that the Chief Medical Examiner must appoint two or more (previously, was required to appoint one or more) county medical examiners for each county for a three-year term. 

    Makes clarifying changes.

     

    Health and Human Services, Health, Public Health
    GS 130A
  • Bill H 814 (2015-2016)
    Summary date: Apr 27 2015 - View Summary

    House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition.

    Deletes the proposed changes to GS 130A-379 and GS 130A-385.

    Amends GS 130A-382 to require county medical examiners to complete annual continuing education training that includes training on sudden unexplained death in epilepsy, with newly appointed examiners required to complete the training within 90 days of their appointment. Requires guidelines to be published and annually updated on the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's website. Allows revoking a county medical examiner's appointment for failure to adequately perform office duties after giving written notice of the basis for the revocation and an opportunity to respond.

    Changes the act's effective date from October 1, 2015, to January 1, 2016.

    Changes the act's long title.

    Health and Human Services, Health, Public Health
    GS 130A
  • Bill H 814 (2015-2016)
    Summary date: Apr 16 2015 - View Summary

    Includes whereas clauses.

    Amends GS 130A-379 to require the Chief Medical Examiner to establish a sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP) training program to educate medical examiners, and standard protocols governing medicolegal death investigations involving seizure disorders in order to identify SUDEP as a known or suspected cause of death. 

    Amends GS 130A-385 to require the Chief Medical Examiner's inquiries about the cause and manner of death for each death under investigation to include an inquiry to determine if death was a result of a seizure or epilepsy. Specifies actions that must be taken if the autopsy findings are consistent with the definition of known or suspected sudden unexplained death in epilepsy. Makes language gender-neutral.

    Effective October 1, 2015.

    Health and Human Services, Health, Public Health
    GS 130A
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