1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Strengthening the Medical Examiner and Coroner System Act of 2024 . 2. Forensic medical needs Part E of title VII of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 294n et seq. ) is amended by adding at the end the following: 4 Forensic pathology workforce 779. Grants to address the forensic medicine service provider shortage (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Forensic medicine service provider The term forensic medicine service provider has the meaning given the term in section 6 of Billy's Law ( 34 U.S.C. 40506 note; Public Law 117–327 ). (2) Medicolegal death investigator The term medicolegal death investigator means an individual who performs formal inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a human being to assist in the determination of the cause and manner of death. (3) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary, acting through the Collaborating Office of Medical Examiners and Coroners of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (b) Purposes The purposes of this section are— (1) to encourage and incentivize qualified medical school graduates to enter the practice of forensic pathology by supporting forensic pathology fellowships; (2) to encourage and incentivize qualified individuals to enter the field of medicolegal death investigation to conduct death investigations in support of forensic medicine service providers