Bill Text: TN SB1757 | 2017-2018 | 110th General Assembly | Draft
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Bill Title: As enacted, clarifies that the ability of a next of kin to seek reconsideration of a medical examiner's manner of death determination applies only when the manner of death is determined to be suicide; specifies that unrelated parties have no liability for relying on the original death certificate, without regard to subsequent revision made pursuant to a request for reconsideration of the cause of death. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 3.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-04-23 - Pub. Ch. 714 [SB1757 Detail]
Download: Tennessee-2017-SB1757-Draft.pdf
Bill Title: As enacted, clarifies that the ability of a next of kin to seek reconsideration of a medical examiner's manner of death determination applies only when the manner of death is determined to be suicide; specifies that unrelated parties have no liability for relying on the original death certificate, without regard to subsequent revision made pursuant to a request for reconsideration of the cause of death. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 3.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-04-23 - Pub. Ch. 714 [SB1757 Detail]
Download: Tennessee-2017-SB1757-Draft.pdf
