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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