Bill Text: CA SB1000 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Connected devices: device protection requests.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. [SB1000 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1000-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1000

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Introduced by Senators Ashby and Rubio

February 01, 2024

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An act to amend Section 27491 of the Government Code, relating to local government.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1000, as introduced, Ashby. Local government: coroner.

Existing law makes it the duty of the coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of specified deaths, including all unattended deaths. Under existing law, in any case in which the coroner conducts an inquiry, the coroner or a deputy is required to personally sign the certificate of death, except as specified. Under specified circumstances, existing law requires a funeral director, physician, or other person who has charge of a deceased person’s body to immediately notify the coroner.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 27491 of the Government Code is amended to read:

27491.

 (a) It shall be the duty of the coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of all violent, sudden, or unusual deaths; unattended deaths; deaths where the deceased has not been attended by either a physician or a registered nurse, who is a member of a hospice care interdisciplinary team, as defined by subdivision (g) of Section 1746 of the Health and Safety Code in the 20 days before death; known or suspected homicide, suicide, or accidental poisoning; deaths known or suspected as resulting in whole or in part from or related to accident or injury either old or recent; deaths due to drowning, fire, hanging, gunshot, stabbing, cutting, exposure, starvation, acute alcoholism, drug addiction, strangulation, aspiration, or where the suspected cause of death is sudden infant death syndrome; death in whole or in part occasioned by criminal means; deaths associated with a known or alleged rape; deaths in prison or while under sentence; deaths known or suspected as due to contagious disease and constituting a public hazard; deaths from occupational diseases or occupational hazards; deaths of patients in state hospitals serving the mentally disordered and operated by the State Department of State Hospitals; deaths of patients in state hospitals serving the developmentally disabled and operated by the State Department of Developmental Services; deaths under circumstances that afford a reasonable ground to suspect that the death was caused by the criminal act of another; and any deaths reported by physicians or other persons having knowledge of death for inquiry by coroner. Inquiry pursuant to this section does not include those investigative functions usually performed by other law enforcement agencies.

(a)

(b) If the coroner conducts an inquiry pursuant to this section, the coroner or a deputy shall personally sign the certificate of death. If the death occurred in a state hospital, the coroner shall forward a copy of the report to the state agency responsible for the state hospital.

(b)

(c) The coroner shall have discretion to determine the extent of the inquiry to be made into any death occurring under natural circumstances and falling within the provisions of this section, and if inquiry determines that the physician of record has sufficient knowledge to reasonably state the cause of a death occurring under natural circumstances, the coroner may authorize that physician to sign the certificate of death.

(c)

(d) For the purpose of inquiry, the coroner shall have the right to exhume the body of a deceased person when necessary to discharge the responsibilities set forth in this section.

(d)

(e) A funeral director, physician, or other person who has charge of a deceased person’s body, when death occurred as a result of any of the causes or circumstances described in this section, shall immediately notify the coroner. A person who does not notify the coroner as required by this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.