By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 336
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. (a) 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:
(1) [unless he is] a physician licensed by the Texas
Medical [State] Board; or
(2) a person who:
(A) is licensed and in good standing as a
physician in another state;
(B) has applied to the Texas Medical Board for a
license to practice medicine in this state; and
(C) has been granted a provisional license under
Section 155.101, Occupations Code [of Medical Examiners].
(b) 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.
(c) 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.