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         By Uher                                               H.B. No. 3265
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3265:
         By Green                                          C.S.H.B. No. 3265
                                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.