Bill Text: TX SB760 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to taking a blood specimen from the body of a deceased person during an inquest.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-23 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB760 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB760-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 760 | ||
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| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 760 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 27, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 760 passed the House on | ||
| May 9, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 134, Nays 8, | ||
| two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
