HBA-RBT H.B. 3775 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 3775
By: Olivo
Criminal Jurisprudence
4/16/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, a justice of the peace has the authority to order certain people
to take a blood sample of a deceased person who has been in a motor vehicle
accident.  H.B. 3775 adds a paramedic to that list. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Article 49.10(j), Code of Criminal Procedure, to include
a paramedic among those a justice of the peace mayauthorize to take a
specimen of blood from the body of a person who died as the result of a
motor vehicle accident. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date: September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.