By: Gonzales of Hidalgo (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) H.B. No. 2286
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2011;
May 3, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
and Human Services; May 13, 2011, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 13, 2011, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the duties of a funeral director or an agent at the
interment or entombment of a human body.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter I, Chapter 651, Occupations Code, is
amended by adding Section 651.4085 to read as follows:
Sec. 651.4085. INTERMENT OR ENTOMBMENT. (a) A funeral
director who contracts with a customer to perform funeral directing
under this chapter, or an agent of the funeral establishment, shall
be present when the casket containing the human body to which the
contract applies is placed in a grave, crypt, or burial vault unless
interment or entombment takes place at a location outside this
state.
(b) The funeral directing duties related to interment or
entombment services are complete when the casket is placed in a
grave, crypt, or burial vault.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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