2. Access to or dissemination of records made confidential is expressly addressed and "person" is defined for those purposes. Each provision authorizing access or dissemination reflects current practice.

3. Testing for HIV when determined necessary by the Chief Medical Examiner and disclosure of test results are expressly authorized notwithstanding current law governing the testing for HIV and the disclosure of the results of those tests.

4. In the medical examiner case context the term "violence" has been replaced with the more readily understandable phrase "physical injury."

5. The reporting requirements of suspected medical examiner cases have been clarified, including the definition of "person".

6. The procedures for investigations by law enforcement officers have been clarified.

7 A new section has been added to allow the Chief Medical Examiner to assume responsibility for proper disposition of dead bodies of identified nonresidents or of unidentified residents that are the subject of medical examiner cases when no other person or governmental unit is willing to take responsibility for disposition. The necessary expenses incurred by the Chief Medical Examiner are to be paid by the Department of Human Services.

8. Finally, this bill makes grammatical changes and corrects gender-specific language.