All Coroners Legislation - Kentucky

Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Received in House

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Amend KRS 421.500 to make technical correction.

Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 25, 2008

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Amend KRS 72.450 to allow a coroner who is in possession of an unclaimed dead body to cause the body to be buried or cremated.

Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - To Health & Welfare (H)

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Amend KRS 72.415 to allow coroners or deputy coroners to issue certificates of death and provisional certificates of death and provide copies of the certificates upon request; amend KRS 213.076 to require that a certificate of death and a provisional certificate of death for each death which occurs in the Commonwealth be filed with the coroner or deputy coroner in the county where the death occurred; provide that the Vital Statistics Branch shall provide self-addressed, color-coded envelopes to all coroners or deputy coroners to be available for the funeral homes in the Commonwealth; amend KRS 213.078 to provide that the coroner or deputy coroner in the county where a death occurred shall call attention to and defects in the certificate of death; amend KRS 304.12-240, 367.934, and 367.942 to conform.

Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 74)

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Amend KRS 64.185 to allow coroners to appoint additional deputy coroners with the approval of the local legislative body of the county; include various forms of local governments within purview of entire section.

Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare

Bill Text
Amend KRS 213.041 to allow certificates required under KRS Chapter 213 to be signed in black or blue ink; amend KRS 213.076 to require the state registrar to send an incomplete or unsatisfactory certificate of death to the appropriate funeral director, physician, dentist, chiropractor, or coroner responsible for the entry to complete or correct the certificate; require the state registrar to notify the entity who submitted the certificate of death that it was returned to the funeral director, physician, dentist, chiropractor, or coroner for completion.