Bill Text: TX HB2385 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the DNA database at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2385 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2385-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2385 | ||
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| relating to the DNA database at the University of North Texas Health | ||
| Science Center at Fort Worth. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 63, Code of Criminal | ||
| Procedure, is amended by adding Article 63.0515 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 63.0515. CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY. For purposes of | ||
| this subchapter, the center is a criminal justice agency that | ||
| performs forensic DNA analyses on evidence, including evidence | ||
| related to a case involving unidentified human remains or a | ||
| high-risk missing person. The center shall comply with 42 U.S.C. | ||
| Section 14132. | ||
| SECTION 2. Article 63.052(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The [ |
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| identify unidentified human remains and high-risk missing persons. | ||
| SECTION 3. Article 63.052(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, | ||
| is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2385 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2385 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
