Bill Text: TX HB300 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to inquest summary reports and the preservation of evidence collected in the course of an inquest.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective immediately [HB300 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB300-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 300 |
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relating to inquest summary reports and the preservation of | ||
evidence collected in the course of an inquest. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Article 49.17, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Art. 49.17. EVIDENCE. A justice of the peace shall preserve | ||
all tangible evidence that the justice accumulates in the course of | ||
an inquest that tends to show the real cause of death or identify | ||
the person who caused the death. The justice shall[ |
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enforcement agency to be stored in the agency's property room for | ||
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SECTION 2. Article 49.15(d), Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. The certified copy of an inquest summary report | ||
received and maintained by a district court clerk under Article | ||
49.15(d), Code of Criminal Procedure, as it existed immediately | ||
before the effective date of this Act, may be destroyed by the clerk | ||
in accordance with the district court's records retention schedule. | ||
SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, each district clerk in possession of evidence | ||
delivered to the clerk for safekeeping under Article 49.17, Code of | ||
Criminal Procedure, as that article existed immediately before the | ||
effective date of this Act, shall transfer the evidence to the | ||
appropriate law enforcement agency for safekeeping as provided by | ||
Article 49.17, Code of Criminal Procedure, as amended by this Act. | ||
SECTION 5. 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, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 300 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 300 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |