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Medical Examiners’ Duties

This bill failed and is no longer moving.

FL SB 188 · Senate Bill · 2026

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Failed
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Senate
Sponsor
1
Latest action
Mar 13, 2026

What it does

Medical Examiners’ Duties; Specifying autopsy requirements for certain cases involving sudden and unexpected deaths; requiring medical examiners to report specified cases to the national Sudden Unexpected Infant Death and Sudden Death in the Young Case Registry in accordance with protocols established by the Department of Health and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; requiring the department to impose certain administrative penalties against medical examiners for failure to report such cases in a specified timeframe, etc.

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