210.194. Panels, coroners and medical examiners--rules authorized for protocol and identifying suspicious deaths, procedure. - Missouri Statutes

Panels, coroners and medical examiners--rules authorized forprotocol and identifying suspicious deaths, procedure.

210.194. 1. The director of the department of social services, inconsultation with the director of the department of health and seniorservices, shall promulgate rules, guidelines and protocols for child fatalityreview panels established pursuant to section 210.192 and for state childfatality review panels.

2. The director shall promulgate guidelines and protocols for coronerand medical examiners to use to help them to identify suspicious deaths ofchildren under the age of eighteen years, who are eligible to receive acertificate of live birth.

3. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority ofsections 210.192 to 210.196 shall become effective unless it has beenpromulgated pursuant to the provisions of section 536.024, RSMo.

4. All meetings conducted, all reports and records made and maintainedpursuant to sections 210.192 to 210.196 by the department of social servicesand department of health and senior services and its divisions, including thestate technical assistance team, or other appropriate persons, officials, orstate child fatality review panel and local child fatality review panel shallbe confidential and shall not be open to the general public except for theannual report pursuant to section 210.195.

(L. 1991 H.B. 185 § 2, A.L. 1993 S.B. 52, A.L. 1994 S.B. 595, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3)