Bill Text: TX HB3192 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 3192

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Bill Title: Relating to the designation of fentanyl poisoning for purposes of the death certificate.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-02 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB3192 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3192-Comm_Sub.html

	88R21367 CJD-D

	By: Lujan, Guillen, Klick, Goldman, et al.	H.B. No. 3192

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3192:

	By: Klick	C.S.H.B. No. 3192



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the designation of fentanyl poisoning for purposes of
	the death certificate.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 193.005, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended by adding Subsection (e-1) to read as follows:
	(e-1) The medical certification on a death certificate must
	include the term "Fentanyl Poisoning" if:
	(1) a toxicology examination reveals a controlled
	substance listed in Penalty Group 1-B present in the body of the
	decedent in an amount or concentration that is considered to be
	lethal by generally accepted scientific standards; and
	(2) the results of an autopsy performed on the
	decedent are consistent with an opioid overdose as the cause of
	death.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to a death that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act, or
	a death that occurs before that date but is discovered on or after
	the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.