Bill Text: TX HB1192 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the qualifications for appointment as a medical examiner.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-25 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1192 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1192-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the qualifications for appointment as a medical examiner.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-25 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1192 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1192-Introduced.html
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By: Moody | H.B. No. 1192 |
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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 [ |
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at the pleasure of the commissioners court. A [ |
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physician licensed by the Texas Medical [ |
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who is licensed and in good standing as a physician in another state | ||
and is seeking licensure in this state [ |
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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 [ |
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necessary to perform [ |
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by this Article. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |