1-1     By:  Sibley                                            S.B. No. 600
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 2001; February 12, 2001,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
 1-4     March 19, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 19, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to requirements regarding certification that a forensic
 1-9     anthropologist must meet in order to assist a medical examiner.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (n), Article 49.10, Code of Criminal
1-12     Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (n)  On discovering the body of a deceased person in the
1-14     circumstances described by Article 49.04(a)(3)(B), the medical
1-15     examiner may request the aid of a forensic anthropologist in the
1-16     examination of the body.  The forensic anthropologist must be
1-17     eligible for board certification [board-certified] by a nationally
1-18     recognized association that accredits practitioners in the forensic
1-19     sciences.  The forensic anthropologist shall attempt to establish
1-20     whether the body is of a human or animal, whether evidence of
1-21     childbirth, injury, or disease exists, and the sex, race, age,
1-22     stature, and physical anomalies of the body.  The forensic
1-23     anthropologist may also attempt to establish the cause, manner, and
1-24     time of death.
1-25           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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