83R2168 PEP-D
 
  By: Moody H.B. No. 1192
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the qualifications for appointment as a medical
  examiner.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 2, Article 49.25, Code of Criminal
  Procedure, is amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 2.  APPOINTMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS. The commissioners
  court shall appoint the medical examiner, who serves [shall serve]
  at the pleasure of the commissioners court. A [No] person [shall
  be] appointed as the medical examiner must be [unless he is] a
  physician licensed by the Texas Medical [State] Board or a person
  who is licensed and in good standing as a physician in another state
  and is seeking licensure in this state [of Medical Examiners]. To
  the greatest extent possible, the medical examiner shall be
  appointed from persons having training and experience in pathology,
  toxicology, histology and other medico-legal sciences. The medical
  examiner shall devote the [so much of his] time and energy [as is]
  necessary to perform [in the performance of] the duties conferred
  by this Article.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.