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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 390: SUDP; Office of Chief Medical Examiner to publish information on its website.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 390 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 9, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: SUDP; Office of Chief Medical Examiner to publish information on its website. Primary sponsor: Stella Pekarsky (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (November 19, 2024): Left in Finance and Appropriations.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy; protocol; information; training. Requires the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to take certain actions upon the finding that an individual died from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), defined in the bill. The bill directs the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to publish information on SUDEP and a SUDEP death investigation form on its website. Additionally, the bill requires the Chief Medical Examiner and local medical examiners to complete training in the investigation of SUDEP on a triennial basis. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Stella PekarskyPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate36

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Finance and Appropriations
  2. Continued to 2025 in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
  3. Impact statement from DPB (SB390S1)
  4. Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
  5. Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
  6. Read second time
  7. Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
  8. Committee substitute printed 24106684D-S1
  9. Reported from Education and Health with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
  10. Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  11. Assigned Education and Health Sub: Health
  12. Impact statement from DPB (SB390)

Showing 12 most recent of 15 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source