1-1     By:  Ogden                                             S.B. No. 370
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 24, 2001; January 25, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     February 21, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
 1-5     7, Nays 0; February 21, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the performance of an autopsy on an individual injured
 1-9     in one county and dying in another county.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Article 49.10, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-12     amended by adding Subsection (o) to read as follows:
1-13           (o)  If a person is injured in one county and dies as a
1-14     result of those injuries, with the death occurring in another
1-15     county, the attorney representing the state in the prosecution of
1-16     felonies in the county in which the injury occurred may request a
1-17     justice of the peace in the county in which the death occurred to
1-18     order an autopsy be performed on the body of the deceased person.
1-19     If the justice of the peace orders that the autopsy be performed,
1-20     the county in which the injury occurred shall reimburse the county
1-21     in which the death occurred.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-23     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-24     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
1-25     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-26     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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