§2025.6. Reporting requirements
A. Each overdose fatality review panel shall submit no later than November
first of each year an annual report to the human services district for the parish or
parishes served by the review panel. The annual report shall include but not be
limited to the following information:
(1) The total number of fatal overdoses that occurred within the jurisdiction
of the overdose fatality review panel.
(2) The number of fatal overdose cases investigated by the overdose fatality
review panel.
(3) Any recommendations for state and local agencies or the state legislature
to assist in preventing fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the state.
(4) Assessable results of any recommendations made by the overdose fatality
review panel, including but not limited to changes in local or state law, policy, or
funding made as a result of the panel's recommendations.
B. Each human services district shall compile the reports submitted to it from
the review panels and submit the compiled report to the Louisiana Department of
Health no later than December thirty-first of each year. The compiled report shall
also include any additional recommendations from the human services district based
on the data received for the region.
C. The Louisiana Department of Health shall analyze each annual report,
shall create a single report containing an aggregate of the data received pursuant to
this Section, and shall submit the report to the governor and legislature no later than
March fifteenth of each year.
D. Reports submitted pursuant to this Section are not confidential and are
subject to the Public Records Law.
Acts 2024, No. 498, §1.