Amend CSSB 359 by adding the following appropriately numbered
sections and renumbering the sections of the bill accordingly:
      SECTION ____.  Subsection (e), Article 49.10, Code of
Criminal Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
      (e)  A justice of the peace shall order an autopsy performed
on a body if;
            (1)  the justice determines that an autopsy is
necessary to determine or confirm the nature and cause of death;
            (2)  the deceased was a child younger than six years of
age and the death is determined <was reported> under Section
264.514 <Chapter 264>, Family Code, to be unexpected or the result
of abuse or neglect; or
            (3)  directed to do so by the district attorney,
criminal district attorney, or, if there is no district or criminal
district attorney, the county attorney.
      SECTION ____.  Section 264.514, Family Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
follows:
      (a)  A medical examiner or justice of the peace notified of a
death of a child under Section 264.513 shall hold an inquest under
Chapter 49, Code of Criminal Procedure, to determine whether the
death is unexpected or the result of abuse or neglect. An inquest
is not required under this subchapter if the child's death is
expected and is due to a congenital or neoplastic disease. A death
caused by an infectious disease may be considered an expected death
if:
            (1)  the disease was not acquired as a result of trauma
or poisoning;
            (2)  the infectious organism is identified using
standard medical procedures; and
            (3)  the death is not reportable to the Texas
Department of Health under Chapter 81, Health and Safety Code.
      (c)  In this section, the terms "abuse" and "neglect" have
the meaning assigned those terms by Section 261.001.
      SECTION ____.  The changes in law made by this Act by the
amendment to Article 49.10, Code of Criminal Procedure, and Section
264.514, Family Code, take effect September 1, 1997, and apply only
to death of a child younger than six years of age that occurs on or
after September 1, 1997. A death of a child that occurs before
September 1, 1997, is governed by the law as it existed immediately
before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in
effect for that purpose.