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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to persons who may be ordered to take a blood sample from |
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the body of a person who died as a result of a motor vehicle |
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accident. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Article 49.10(j), Code of Criminal Procedure, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(j) A justice of the peace may order a physician, qualified |
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technician, paramedic, chemist, registered professional nurse, |
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[or] licensed vocational nurse, funeral director, or embalmer to |
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take a specimen of blood from the body of a person who died as the |
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result of a motor vehicle accident if the justice determines that |
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circumstances indicate that the person may have been driving while |
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intoxicated. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007. |