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.
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