SECOND REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE BILL NO. 1353

90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE FARNEN.

Read 1st time January 6, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

Read 2nd time January 10, 2000, and referred to the Committee on Civil and Administrative Law, January 20, 2000.

Rereferred to the Committee on Public Safety and Law Enforcement on February 1, 2000.

Reported from the Committee on Public Safety and Law Enforcement, February 9, 2000, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.

Perfected by Consent February 21, 2000.

ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk

3392L.02P


AN ACT

To repeal section 58.449, RSMo 1994, relating to coroners' test results, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.




Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 58.449, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 58.449, to read as follows:

58.449. The contents of the report and results of any test made pursuant to the requirements or authorizations of sections 58.445 to 58.449 shall be used primarily for statistical purposes which do not reveal the identity of the deceased and shall not be public information[; however,]. The contents of the report and the results of any test so made shall be released upon request to any person involved in the accident, attorney for a person involved in the accident, or insurer of a person involved in the accident or whose property is involved in an accident for purposes of investigation of any civil claim or defense. This information shall be released to other parties only upon the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum by a court of competent jurisdiction for use in any civil or criminal action arising out of the accident.



Missouri House of Representatives