1-1     By:  Uher (Senate Sponsor - Madla)                    H.B. No. 3265
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Administration; May 14, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Madla
 1-8           Amend H.B. 3265 as follows:
 1-9           (1)  On page 1, line 18 strike "For" and substitute "Except
1-10     as required by Section 264.514, Family Code, for".
1-11                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-12                                   AN ACT
1-13     relating to the duties of a justice of the peace with respect to
1-14     inquests on dead bodies.
1-15           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-16           SECTION 1.  Article 49.10(c), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-17     amended to read as follows:
1-18           (c)  For each body that is the subject of an inquest by a
1-19     justice of the peace, the justice, in the justice's discretion,
1-20     shall:
1-21                 (1)  direct a physician to perform an autopsy; or
1-22                 (2)  certify that no autopsy is necessary.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
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