[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 532 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 532

Recognizing and supporting the goals and ideals of National Medicolegal 
                Death Investigation Professionals Week.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 25, 2024

    Mr. Cornyn (for himself and Mr. Murphy) submitted the following 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Recognizing and supporting the goals and ideals of National Medicolegal 
                Death Investigation Professionals Week.

Whereas the Senate is committed to the use of highly trained medicolegal death 
        investigation professionals to ensure that the suspicious, violent, 
        unattended, unexplained, and unexpected deaths that occur throughout the 
        United States are investigated;
Whereas medicolegal death investigation professionals are an indispensable 
        component of the public health and public safety systems in the United 
        States as they speak for those who can no longer speak for themselves;
Whereas medicolegal death investigation professionals partner with--

    (1) local and national agencies to build and maintain public health 
databases relating to injury, illness, disease; and

    (2) Federal, State, and local agencies to ensure public safety;

Whereas medicolegal death investigation professionals aim to complete the 
        highest quality medicolegal death investigations through national 
        standards; and
Whereas the week of January 21, 2024, through January 27, 2024, is recognized as 
        ``National Medicolegal Death Investigation Professionals Week'': Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) supports the goals and ideals of National Medicolegal 
        Death Investigation Professionals Week; and
            (2) recognizes that National Medicolegal Death 
        Investigation Professionals Week provides a special opportunity 
        for--
                    (A) medicolegal death investigation professionals 
                to--
                            (i) acknowledge the contributions of 
                        medicolegal death investigation professionals 
                        working throughout the jurisdictions of the 
                        United States;
                            (ii) organize community events to encourage 
                        a better understanding of medicolegal death 
                        investigations;
                            (iii) provide tours to Federal, State, and 
                        local policymakers to assist those individuals 
                        in gaining better insight into the current 
                        capabilities of medicolegal death investigation 
                        professionals and the future demands that 
                        medicolegal death investigation professionals 
                        will face; and
                            (iv) contact and invite local media outlets 
                        to cover events hosted during National 
                        Medicolegal Death Investigation Professionals 
                        Week;
                    (B) local policymakers to--
                            (i) recognize, through formal commendation 
                        or resolution, the contributions of local 
                        medicolegal death investigation professionals 
                        to the communities of those policymakers;
                            (ii) formally declare the week of January 
                        21, 2024, through January 27, 2024, to be 
                        ``National Medicolegal Death Investigation 
                        Professionals Week'';
                            (iii) visit local medicolegal death 
                        investigation professionals in their 
                        jurisdictions to gain an understanding of the 
                        capabilities and needs of those jurisdictions; 
                        and
                            (iv) discuss the operational needs of State 
                        and local medicolegal death investigation 
                        jurisdictions;
                    (C) individuals in the United States, including 
                members of the media, to--
                            (i) attend community events sponsored by 
                        local medicolegal death investigation 
                        jurisdictions;
                            (ii) take tours of local medical examiner 
                        and coroner offices; and
                            (iii) ask local medical examiner and 
                        coroner offices about the operational and 
                        legislative needs of those jurisdictions;
                    (D) members of the media to highlight local news 
                stories that focus on the work of local medicolegal 
                death investigation professionals in the communities 
                they serve; and
                    (E) public safety officers, law enforcement 
                officers, and court officers to--
                            (i) attend community events sponsored by 
                        local medicolegal death investigation 
                        jurisdictions;
                            (ii) take tours of local medical examiner 
                        and coroner offices;
                            (iii) discuss the operational needs of 
                        State and local medicolegal death investigation 
                        jurisdictions; and
                            (iv) engage with local medicolegal death 
                        investigation professionals about working 
                        together more effectively.
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