26-4-28 - Testing for suspected suicides -- Maintaining information -- Report to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee -- Compensation to deputy medical examiners. - Utah Statutes

26-4-28. Testing for suspected suicides -- Maintaining information -- Report to theHealth and Human Services Interim Committee -- Compensation to deputy medicalexaminers.
(1) In all cases where it is suspected that a death resulted from suicide, including assistedsuicide, the medical examiner shall endeavor to have the following tests conducted upon samplestaken from the body of the deceased:
(a) a test that detects all of the substances included in the volatiles panel of the Bureau ofForensic Toxicology within the Department of Health;
(b) a test that detects all of the substances included in the drugs of abuse panel of theBureau of Forensic Toxicology within the Department of Health; and
(c) a test that detects all of the substances included in the prescription drug panel of theBureau of Forensic Toxicology within the Department of Health.
(2) The medical examiner shall maintain information regarding the types of substancesfound present in the samples taken from the body of a person who is suspected to have died as aresult of suicide or assisted suicide.
(3) (a) Beginning in 2008, on or before November 30 of each year, the Department ofHealth shall present a report on the information described in Subsection (2) to the Health andHuman Services Interim Committee.
(b) The information described in Subsection (3)(a) may not contain any identifyinginformation regarding any person to whom the information described in Subsection (2) relates.
(4) Within funds appropriated by the Legislature for this purpose, the medical examinershall provide compensation, at a standard rate determined by the medical examiner, to a deputymedical examiner who collects samples for the purposes described in Subsection (1).

Enacted by Chapter 205, 2007 General Session