1. (a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.
2. (b) “Child” means an individual under the age of 18 years.
3. (c) “Child death review case reporting system” means a national, standardized, web-based reporting system for the confidential collection, analysis, aggregation, and reporting of child death data that is maintained and operated by a national center for child death review.
4. (d) “Data use agreement” means a contract between the Department and a national center for child death review that establishes the terms and conditions for the State and local child fatality review teams' participation in a child death review case reporting system.

5. (e) “Health care provider” means:

   1. (1) An individual licensed or certified under the Health Occupations Article to provide health care; or
   2. (2) A facility that provides health care to individuals.
6. (f) “Local team” means the multidisciplinary and multiagency child fatality review team established for a county.
7. (g) “Meeting” includes meetings through telephone conferencing.

8. (h) “National center for child death review” means a public, private, nonprofit, or governmental organization or entity that is funded or otherwise recognized by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is responsible for:

   1. (1) Developing a child death review case reporting system;
   2. (2) Training and serving as a liaison to State agencies participating in the system; and
   3. (3) Disseminating national child death review data generated by the system.
9. (i) “State Team” means the State Child Fatality Review Team.
10. (j) “Unexpected child death” means a death of a child investigated by the office of the Chief Medical Examiner as required by § 5-309 of this title.

Added by Acts 1999, c. 355, § 1, eff. July 1, 1999; Acts 1999, c. 356, § 1, eff. July 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2009, c. 107, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2009; Acts 2009, c. 108, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2009.