Senator drops bill to close autopsy records
State Sen. Joey Hensley, a county medical examiner himself, put a stop on Wednesday to the effort to close autopsy records, noting that the state's autopsy law already provided privacy of medical records of the deceased that are unrelated to the cause of the death. Hensley, a physician and the county medical examiner for Lewis County, decided not to present a bill that would have closed autopsy reports, sending it to the general subcommittee of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee. State Sen. Joey Hensley, R-Hohenwald Hensley, in explaining his action on Wednesday, said the bill was brought to him by the House sponsor (Rep. Eddie Smith, R-Knoxville) [...]