An Act To Update Certain Medical Examiner Fees

LD 249 increases the fee paid to nonsalaried medical examiners and medicolegal death investigators from $100 to $150 for each inspection and view of a death scene. It also authorizes an additional $50 fee for non-hospital death scene visits and requires travel expenses to be reimbursed at the state employee mileage rate. The bill updates reimbursement rates for funeral homes transporting bodies to Augusta, setting a $120 base rate for the first 25 miles, $2 per mile for the next 25 miles, and $1.75 per mile beyond 50 miles. These changes directly affect medical examiners, death investigators, and funeral homes handling death-related transport in Maine.