SSB 5163 — Modernizing the child fatality statute.

What this bill does

Modifies various provisions related to child mortality reviews, including renaming these as child fatality reviews, expanding these reviews to include children up to age 19, and requiring various entities to provide records and data requested for specific child fatality reviews to the local health department. Allows witness statements or documents collected from witnesses, or summaries of these records prepared for child fatality reviews, to be introduced into evidence in a criminal proceeding relating to the death of the child reviewed.

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Floor votes

• House — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 10, 2025
  85 yea · 10 nay · 3 not voting
• Senate — 3rd Reading & Final Passage · March 12, 2025
  48 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting

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