No. SB 1752
Filed under Healthcare.
Suicide and Drug Overdose Prevention; Creating the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, within the Department of Health for specified purposes; providing for membership of the committees and duties of the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively; authorizing external stakeholders to review specified information; requiring the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, to annually submit a report to the Department of Health and the Statewide Drug Policy Advisory Council by a specified date, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDTwo new state-run panels, the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, will examine individual overdose and suicide deaths through local, county-level review committees working under the Department of Health.
Committee chairs can pull a decedent's confidential medical, dental, mental-health, and substance-abuse treatment records, and records held by state and local agencies, notwithstanding any other confidentiality law, for the decedent and their family.
People who serve on or provide information to a committee cannot be forced to testify about what they discussed, and are shielded from civil, criminal, or administrative liability for participating, unless they admit to a crime.
A committee chair can get a statewide subpoena through the Department of Legal Affairs to compel records, enforceable by any sheriff. Each committee must publish an annual statistical report starting December 1, 2027.
AILets the chair of the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee or the Suicide Death Review Committee access a decedent's medical, dental, substance-use, and mental-health treatment records, and records from any state or local agency, despite any other confidentiality law.
AIShields anyone who serves on or gives information to a review committee from being compelled to testify about committee proceedings in any civil, criminal, or administrative case, and from liability for participating, unless the person admits to a crime.
AIAuthorizes the committee chair to obtain a subpoena through the Department of Legal Affairs that is effective anywhere in the state, served by any sheriff, with disobeying it punishable under general law.
AIBars a review committee from releasing any information or records that would identify a decedent, family member, or care provider, or that contain health, treatment, or social-service records tied to the death being reviewed.
AIEstablishes a statewide committee within the Department of Health, backed by local review committees in each jurisdiction, to study individual overdose deaths, identify contributing factors, and recommend law, rule, and policy changes.
AIEstablishes a parallel statewide committee within the Department of Health, with local review committees in each jurisdiction, to study individual suicide deaths, identify contributing factors, and recommend law, rule, and policy changes.
AILets outside stakeholders such as schools, physicians, social workers, and law enforcement review nonidentifiable case findings after a committee's internal review, to spot broader patterns and shape prevention recommendations.
AIRequires each committee to submit a comprehensive annual statistical report on reviewed deaths, including demographics, causes, and policy recommendations, to the Department of Health and the Statewide Drug Policy Advisory Council starting December 1, 2027.