Bill Text: TX HB2326 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to taking a blood specimen from the body of a deceased person during an inquest.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-09 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2326 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2326-Comm_Sub.html
88R8412 CJD-D | ||
By: Moody, Toth, Cook | H.B. No. 2326 |
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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. |