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