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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