83R2168 PEP-D
By: Moody H.B. No. 1192
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the qualifications for appointment as a medical
examiner.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2, Article 49.25, Code of Criminal
Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 2. APPOINTMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS. The commissioners
court shall appoint the medical examiner, who serves [shall serve]
at the pleasure of the commissioners court. A [No] person [shall
be] appointed as the medical examiner must be [unless he is] a
physician licensed by the Texas Medical [State] Board or a person
who is licensed and in good standing as a physician in another state
and is seeking licensure in this state [of Medical Examiners]. To
the greatest extent possible, the medical examiner shall be
appointed from persons having training and experience in pathology,
toxicology, histology and other medico-legal sciences. The medical
examiner shall devote the [so much of his] time and energy [as is]
necessary to perform [in the performance of] the duties conferred
by this Article.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.