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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