Tex. Health & Safety Code § 672.012 · Chapter 672. ADULT FATALITY REVIEW AND INVESTIGATION
REPORT OF UNEXPECTED FATALITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person, including a health care provider, who knows of the death of an adult that resulted from, or that occurred under circumstances indicating death may have resulted from, suicide, family violence, or abuse, shall immediately report the death to the medical examiner of the county in which the death occurred or, if the death occurred in a county that does not have a medical examiner's office or that is not part of a medical examiner's district, to a justice of the peace in that county.
(b) The requirement of this section is in addition to any other reporting requirement imposed by law.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1486, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.672.htm
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