HB-6309, As Passed House, November 29, 2006
July 12, 2006, Introduced by Reps. Sak, Plakas, Gaffney, Adamini, Brown, Green, Alma Smith, Leland, Espinoza, Kooiman, Bennett, Farrah, Gonzales, Waters, Steil, Gleason, Byrum, Hansen, Vander Veen, Wojno, Angerer, Nofs, Vagnozzi, McDowell, Farhat and Clack and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 2844a (MCL 333.2844a), as amended by 1990 PA
149.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2844a. (1) In deaths investigated by the county medical
examiner or deputy county medical examiner where he or she is not
able to establish and verify, as required under section 5 of 1953
PA 181, MCL 52.205, the identity of the dead body by visual means,
fingerprints,
DNA, or other
identifying data definitive
identification procedures, the county medical examiner or deputy
county medical examiner may have a qualified dentist, as determined
by the county medical examiner or deputy county medical examiner,
carry out a dental examination of the dead body. If the county
medical examiner or deputy county medical examiner, with the aid of
the dental examination and other identifying findings, is still not
able to establish the identity of the dead body, the county medical
examiner or deputy county medical examiner shall forward the dental
examination records to the appropriate law enforcement agency. The
law enforcement agency shall enter the information from the dental
examination records into the national crime information center
pursuant
to section 8 of Act No. 319 of the Public Acts of 1968,
being
section 28.258 of the Michigan Compiled Laws 1968 PA 319,
MCL 28.258.
(2) If a person reported missing has not been found within 30
days, the law enforcement agency conducting the investigation for
the missing person shall request the family or next of kin of the
missing person to give them written consent to contact and request
from the dentist of the missing person the person's dental records.
The information from the dental records of the missing person shall
be entered into the national crime information center by the law
enforcement
agency pursuant to section 8 of Act No. 319 of the
Public
Acts of 1968 1968 PA 319,
MCL 28.258.
(3) If a person reported missing has been found, the law
enforcement agency that entered the information under subsection
(2) shall cancel the information.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6308(request no.
07082'06) of the 93rd Legislature is enacted into law.