SB 25-273

Senate Bill 25-273 requires hospitals and healthcare facilities to keep blood samples for up to 14 days if a coroner requests them for an investigation. This applies when the blood sample is taken from someone who has died and whose death is being investigated by a coroner. The bill is now signed into law, meaning hospitals must start following this new requirement immediately.

Official Summary

Current law does not require hospitals to hold on to blood draws for any specific amount of time. The act requires hospitals or other health-care facilities to retain blood draws or admission blood samples for 14 days if a coroner submits a blood retention form upon a hospital or health-care facility for a blood draw or admission blood sample of a deceased individual that is the subject of a coroner's death inquest or investigation. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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