By Uher H.B. No. 3265 76R9472 DLF-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duties of a justice of the peace with respect to 1-3 inquests on dead bodies. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 49.10(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (c) For each body that is the subject of an inquest by a 1-8 justice of the peace, the justice, in the justice's discretion, 1-9 shall: 1-10 (1) direct a physician to perform an autopsy; or 1-11 (2) certify that no autopsy is necessary. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.