By Olivo                                              H.B. No. 3775
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the persons a justice of the peace may order to take a
 1-3     specimen of blood from the body of a person who died in a vehicle
 1-4     accident.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Article 49.10(j), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-7     amended to read as follows:
 1-8           (j)  A justice of the peace may order a physician, qualified
 1-9     technician, paramedic, chemist, registered professional nurse, or
1-10     licensed vocational nurse to take a specimen of blood from the body
1-11     of a person who died as the result of a motor vehicle accident if
1-12     the justice determines that circumstances indicate that the person
1-13     may have been driving while intoxicated.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.