Tex. Health & Safety Code § 671.011 · Subchapter B. AUTOPSY REPORTS
DEFINITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this subchapter, "autopsy report" includes:
(1) the report of the postmortem examination of the body of a person, including x-rays and photographs taken during the actual postmortem examination; and
(2) the toxicology report, if any, and other reports that involve an examination of the internal organs and structures of the body after dissection.
(b) An autopsy report does not include investigative reports and other documents that the physician performing the autopsy may review to assist in determining the cause of death.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 607, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.671.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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