5.__Access to information and records.__In any case subject to review by the team, upon oral or written request of the team, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person that possesses information or records that are necessary and relevant to a team review shall as soon as practicable provide the team with the information and records.__Persons disclosing or providing information or records upon request of the team are not criminally or civilly liable for disclosing or providing information or records in compliance with this subsection.

6.__Confidentiality.__The proceedings and records of the team are confidential and are not subject to subpoena, discovery or introduction into evidence in a civil or criminal action.__The Office of the Attorney General shall disclose conclusions of the review team upon request, but may not disclose information, records or data that are otherwise classified as confidential.

Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §2842, sub-§2-A is enacted to read:

2-A.__Medical certification.__Notwithstanding subsection 2, with respect to a person who dies within the State naturally and for whom the physician was the attending physician the medical certification of the cause of death may be completed and signed by a physician authorized to practice at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Togus or at another federal medical facility within the State or by a physician licensed to practice in New Hampshire, Vermont or Massachusetts, who, at the request of the Chief Medical Examiner, is willing to do so.

Sec. 3. 22 MRSA §3025, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2001, c. 222, §4 and c. 354, §3, is further amended to read:

1. Circumstances of death that must be reported. A medical examiner case exists may exist and must be reported as provided in section 3026 when remains are found which that may be human and raise suspicion that death has occurred under any of the following circumstances: