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Bill Relating to the duties of a justice of the peace, medical examiner, or other investigator regarding the bodies of unidentified deceased persons and to the control by certain persons of the disposition of a deceased person's remains. Relating to the duties of a justice of the peace, medical examiner, or other investigator regarding the bodies of unidentified deceased persons and to the control by certain persons of the disposition of a deceased person's remains. us/states/tx Texas Legislature 88 HB 3161 Texas HB 3161 (88)
bill
Crimes--Against Persons--General (I0170)
Criminal Procedure--General (I0208)
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE (S0133)
Law Enforcement (I0510)
Minors--Crimes Against (I0532)
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Hull
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legislation
bill
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Texas HB 3161 (88) — Relating to the duties of a justice of the peace, medical examiner, or other investigator regarding the bodies of unidentified deceased persons and to the control by certain persons of the disposition of a deceased person's remains.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
  3. House Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senate Committee Report (committee substitute) — source
  5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • passage — 1395 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1360 (pass) · lower
  • passage — 1360 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Huffman — primary (person)
  • Hull — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2023-03-01 Filed filing
  • 2023-03-15 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-03-15 Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence referral-committee
  • 2023-04-11 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-04-11 Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  • 2023-04-11 Left pending in committee
  • 2023-04-17 Considered in formal meeting
  • 2023-04-17 Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent referral-committee
  • 2023-04-17 Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-04-25 Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator filing
  • 2023-04-25 Committee report distributed
  • 2023-04-25 Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
  • 2023-04-28 Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
  • 2023-05-02 Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
  • 2023-05-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2023-05-02 Passed to engrossment
  • 2023-05-02 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-02 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-02 Record vote
  • 2023-05-02 Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-02 Nonrecord vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-02 Reported engrossed
  • 2023-05-03 Received from the House introduction
  • 2023-05-05 Read first time introduction, reading-1
  • 2023-05-05 Referred to Criminal Justice referral-committee
  • 2023-05-16 Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  • 2023-05-16 Considered in public hearing
  • 2023-05-16 Testimony taken in committee
  • 2023-05-16 Vote taken in committee
  • 2023-05-17 Reported favorably as substituted committee-passage-favorable
  • 2023-05-17 Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-17 Committee report printed and distributed
  • 2023-05-21 Placed on intent calendar
  • 2023-05-21 Placed on local & uncontested calendar
  • 2023-05-21 Laid before the Senate receipt
  • 2023-05-21 Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading reading-2
  • 2023-05-21 Vote recorded in Journal
  • 2023-05-21 Three day rule suspended
  • 2023-05-21 Record vote
  • 2023-05-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2023-05-21 Passed passage
  • 2023-05-21 Record vote
  • 2023-05-22 Senate passage as amended reported amendment-passage
  • 2023-05-22 Senate Amendments distributed
  • 2023-05-22 Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
  • 2023-05-25 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
  • 2023-05-25 Record vote
  • 2023-05-25 Text of Senate Amendment(s)
  • 2023-05-25 House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
  • 2023-05-27 Reported enrolled enrolled
  • 2023-05-28 Signed in the House passage
  • 2023-05-29 Signed in the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-30 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
  • 2023-06-12 Signed by the Governor executive-signature
  • 2023-06-12 Effective on 9/1/23 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/23c36fcb-3356-494c-a05a-5b9ef539ef5f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).