South Carolina § 17-5-542 - Local Child Fatality Review Teams; purpose; reports.

§ 17-5-542. Local Child Fatality Review Teams; purpose; reports.

(A) The purpose of the local Child Fatality Review Team is to rapidly and expeditiously review all child deaths that occur in the county in which each coroner serves.

(B) To achieve this purpose, the local Child Fatality Review Team shall:

(1) enter the team's findings of each reviewed child death into the Child Death Review Case Reporting System at the direction of the coroner;

(2) submit to the State Child Fatality Advisory Committee, a monthly report and any other reports prepared by the team, including the team's findings of each reviewed child death; and

(3) submit a report of the findings of each reviewed child death to the Bureau of Vital Statistics as prescribed by the State.

HISTORY: 2018 Act No. 183 (S.170), SECTION 1, eff May 17, 2018.