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A 5624 Amended

Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act

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Enacts the mental health assessment and record keeping for the coroner's office act; requires the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner, to conduct a mental health assessment when a death occurs in such person's jurisdiction; requires death certificates list an underlying mental illness as the cause of death when a person commits suicide; requires life insurance policies to pay upon a suicide which the coroner, coroner and coroner's physician, or the medical examiner indicated an underlying mental illness as the cause of death.

Chamber
House
Introduced
Feb 18, 2025
Last action
Jan 7, 2026 — REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Session
2025-2026
Momentum
40 · Moderate