Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §3022, sub-§8, as amended by PL 1991, c. 339, §1, is repealed and and the following enacted in its place:

8.__Certain information confidential.__The following records in the possession or custody of a medical examiner or the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are not public records within the meaning of Title 1, section 402, subsection 3 and are confidential:

A.__Medical records relating to a medical examiner case;

B.__Law enforcement agency reports or records relating to a medical examiner case;

C.__Communications with the Department of the Attorney General relating to a medical examiner case;

D.__Communications with the office of a district attorney relating to a medical examiner case;

E.__Death certificates and amendments made to the certificates, except for the information for which the medical examiner is responsible, as listed in section 2842, subsection 3, and not ordered withheld by the Attorney General relating to a medical examiner case or missing person;

F.__Report documents, as defined in section 3035, subsection 2, photographs and transparencies, histological slides, videotapes and other like items relating to a medical examiner case;

G.__Written or otherwise recorded communications that express or are evidence of suicidal intent obtained under section 3028, subsections 4 and 5; and

H.__Mechanical or electronic data compilations relating to a medical examiner case.

Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §3022, sub-§9, as repealed and replaced by PL 1987, c. 329, §2, is repealed.

Sec. 3. 22 MRSA §3022, sub-§10, as repealed and replaced by PL 1987, c. 329, §2, is amended to read:

10. Cooperation with research requests. The Office of Chief Medical Examiner shall cooperate with research requests by supplying abstracted data and copies of reports to interested