Reporting youth deaths
Compiled text through Mar 31, 2022
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
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Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Source receipt
- Compiled text through
- Mar 31, 2022
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
(a)The director, or designee, shall report the death of any youth listed on its official facility count to the commission within six hours of pronouncement of death, in a form and manner prescribed by the commission.
(b)Within three days after the pronouncement of a youth's death, a copy of the deceased's entire medical record, including the preliminary autopsy report, if available, shall be forwarded to the commission.
(c)Any copies of medical records provided pursuant to subdivision (b) of this section shall be certified as being a true copy of such record by the authority responsible for maintaining the record.
(d)Within 10 days after the pronouncement of a youth's death, the facility medical director shall forward a follow-up report in writing to the commission which shall include, but not be limited to:
(1)a narrative medical history of the deceased covering the period 90 days prior to death;
(2)the deceased's primary medical and/or psychiatric diagnosis and the therapy provided, if any, as a result of such diagnosis;
(3)a narrative description of the terminal event occurring immediately prior to the pronouncement of death; and
(4)a final copy of the autopsy report, if available.
(e)In addition, such follow-up report shall include information required by the commission's medical review board and any other information specified by the commission in a form and manner required by the board and commission.
(f)When additional pertinent facts are discovered about a youth's death after the facility has submitted the follow-up report to the commission, such information shall be forwarded in writing in a form and manner as required by the commission as soon as practicable, but no later than 14 days following discovery.