[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 14 (Thursday, January 25, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S271]
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                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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SENATE RESOLUTION 532--RECOGNIZING AND SUPPORTING THE GOALS AND IDEALS 
     OF NATIONAL MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INVESTIGATION PROFESSIONALS WEEK

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

                              S. Res. 532

       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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