By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 336

(In the Senate - Filed February 1, 2013; February 5, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; April 8, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 8, 2013, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 336 By: Whitmire

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. (a) 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:

(1) [unless he is] a physician licensed by the Texas Medical [State] Board; or

(2) a person who:

(A) is licensed and in good standing as a physician in another state;

(B) has applied to the Texas Medical Board for a license to practice medicine in this state; and

(C) has been granted a provisional license under Section 155.101, Occupations Code [of Medical Examiners].

(b) 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.

(c) 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.

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