Child Abuse; local child fatality review committees; modify the review

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A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 15 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to child abuse, so as to modify the review to be performed by local child fatality review committees; to add members to such committees; to provide for required attendance for training; to clarify the scope of child deaths subject to review; to modify deadlines and requirements for reports relating to child deaths; to modify the procedures of the coroner or medical examiner and the review committee in identifying child deaths that meet the statutory criteria for review by the review committee; to make conforming changes; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.