DEATH/MORTALITY: Provides relative to medical pronouncement of death. (8/1/26)

SB 216 clarifies who can provide information leading to a coroner's medical pronouncement of death in Louisiana. It allows coroners to base their pronouncement on firsthand observations or statements from licensed practical nurses (LPNs), registered nurses, physician assistants, or EMTs at the scene, not just physicians. The bill requires coroners to document the specific personnel whose information they relied on in their investigative report. This directly affects coroners, healthcare workers responding to deaths, and the official death certification process, making it easier to formally record death when physicians aren't immediately available.