Chief Medical Examiner; appointment, terms, and authority of medical examiners.
Summary
Provides that the Chief Medical Examiner may appoint a medical examiner for each county or city in the Commonwealth. Under current law, the Chief Medical Examiner is required to do so. The bill authorizes appointed medical examiners to assist the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner with cases requiring medicolegal death investigations. Finally, the bill clarifies that the appointment of a medical examiner to fill a vacancy is not required to start on October 1 of the year of appointment, and the term length of such appointment is for the unexpired term.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2017
Committee Review
Feb 2017
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2017
Senate Passage
Jan 2017
Signed into Law
Feb 2017
Introduced Jan 3, 2017
Signed Feb 23, 2017
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
2
Committee
4
Feb 23, 2017
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 170 (effective 7/1/17)
executive
Feb 6, 2017
Committee
Assigned Education sub: Health
legislature
Jan 30, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee on Education and Health
legislature
Jan 27, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
legislature
Jan 12, 2017
Committee
Assigned HWI sub: Subcommittee #2
legislature
Jan 3, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
legislature
Jan 3, 2017
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101342D
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Roslyn C. Tyler
DDemocratic
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