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Senate committee backs lowering threshold for medical examiner offices from 2.5M to 1M
Summary
Witnesses including Fort Bend County's chief medical examiner told the committee that more counties should be under medical examiner jurisdiction; the committee reported the measure favorably to the full Senate.
The Senate Committee on Criminal Justice voted to report Senate Bill 13 70 to the full Senate after testimony that expanding medical-examiner jurisdictions would improve death investigations and forensic services in growing Texas counties.
Senator Hagenbu (laying out the bill) said the state’s rapid population growth has increased demand for forensic services and that the current statutory threshold requiring counties with populations over 2.5 million to maintain a medical examiner's office leaves many mid-sized counties…
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