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.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3775 was passed by the House on May
8, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3775 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor