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S. 697
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General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Verdin
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Introduced in the Senate on March 24, 2021
Introduced in the House on April 7, 2022
Last Amended on April 5, 2022
Currently residing in the House Committee on Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs
Summary: Coroner, jurisdiction over body subject to anatomical gift
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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3/24/2021 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 5)
3/24/2021 Senate Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs
(Senate Journal-page 5)
3/30/2022 Senate Committee report: Favorable with amendment Medical
Affairs (Senate Journal-page 10)
4/5/2022 Senate Committee Amendment Adopted (Senate Journal-page 29)
4/5/2022 Senate Read second time (Senate Journal-page 29)
4/5/2022 Senate Roll call Ayes-40 Nays-0 (Senate Journal-page 29)
4/6/2022 Senate Read third time and sent to House
(Senate Journal-page 30)
4/7/2022 House Introduced and read first time
4/7/2022 House Referred to Committee on Medical, Military, Public and
Municipal Affairs
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ADOPTED
April 5, 2022
S. 697
S. Printed 4/5/22--S.
Read the first time March 24, 2021.
TO AMEND SECTION 44-43-400 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO THE JURISDICTION OF A CORONER OVER A BODY THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF AN ANATOMICAL GIFT, TO CLARIFY THAT THE CORONER MUST COOPERATE EXPEDITIOUSLY WITH A PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION TO MAXIMIZE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECOVER ANATOMICAL GIFTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRANSPLANTATION, THERAPY, RESEARCH, OR EDUCATION, EVEN WHEN PERFORMING AN INVESTIGATION.
Amend Title To Conform
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 44-43-400 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 44-43-400. (A) A coroner shall must cooperate expeditiously with procurement organizations to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. A teleconference meeting with the coroner, organ procurement organization, and the forensic pathologist must be on record with the organ procurement organization for the purpose of demonstrating collaborative review of any potential decline of the anatomical gift.
(B) A part may not be removed from the body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of a coroner for transplantation, therapy, research, or education unless the part is the subject of an anatomical gift. The body of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner may not be delivered to a person for research or education unless the body is the subject of an anatomical gift. This subsection does not preclude a coroner from performing the medicolegal investigation upon the body or parts of a decedent under the jurisdiction of the coroner, provided that the investigation is conducted in a thorough, but expeditious, manner to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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