Bill > HB200

This bill amends existing Alabama law to make it unlawful for medical examiners, including those employed by the Department of Forensic Sciences, to retain a deceased person's organ or organs for research or any other purpose without notification to and approval from the appropriate next of kin, unless retention is required to determine identification or cause of death. Violations of this law are punishable as a Class C felony. The bill also provides that it is exempt from certain constitutional requirements regarding new or increased local government expenditures because it defines a new crime or amends the definition of an existing crime.