HB 102 – Clarify Cause of Death

HB 102 – Clarify Cause of Death

Primary House Sponsors: Rep. Mike Clampitt (R-Haywood, Jackson, Swain); Rep. Mark Pless (R-Haywood, Madison, Yancey); Rep. Dudley Greene (R-Avery, McDowell, Mitchell)

Summary

This bill seeks to clarify that a county medical examiner’s jurisdiction include deaths resulting from motor vehicles collisions and seeks to include death by motor vehicle crash as a cause of death to be included on the death certificate completed by the medical examiner.

Movement

Filed – 2/17/2021

Referred to the following House committees:

-Transportation

-Rules, Calendar, and Operations