1-1 By: Olivo (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 3775 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999; 1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Administration; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the persons a justice of the peace may order to take a 1-9 specimen of blood from the body of a person who died in a vehicle 1-10 accident. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Article 49.10(j), Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-13 amended to read as follows: 1-14 (j) A justice of the peace may order a physician, qualified 1-15 technician, paramedic, chemist, registered professional nurse, or 1-16 licensed vocational nurse to take a specimen of blood from the body 1-17 of a person who died as the result of a motor vehicle accident if 1-18 the justice determines that circumstances indicate that the person 1-19 may have been driving while intoxicated. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-26 * * * * *