By Uher H.B. No. 3265 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the duties performed by a justice of the peace for 1-3 inquests upon 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 shall have discretion to: 1-9 (1) direct a physician to perform an autopsy; or 1-10 (2) certify that no autopsy is necessary. 1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-12 SECTION 3. 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.