By: LaMantia S.B. No. 760
(In the Senate - Filed February 7, 2023; March 1, 2023, read
first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
April 19, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; April 19, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to taking a blood specimen from the body of a deceased
person during an inquest.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Article 49.10(j), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
amended to read as follows:
(j) A justice of the peace may order a physician, qualified
technician, paramedic, chemist, registered professional nurse, or
licensed vocational nurse to take a specimen of blood from the body
of a person:
(1) who died as the result of a motor vehicle accident
if the justice determines that circumstances indicate that the
person may have been driving while intoxicated; or
(2) to aid in the confirmation or determination of the
cause and manner of death while conducting an inquest.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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