86R26303 SOS-D
By: Davis of Dallas H.B. No. 1731
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the payment for funeral services performed by a
transferring funeral home under a purchase agreement for funeral
services or merchandise.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 651.406, Occupations Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) A funeral establishment that receives a dead human body
transferred from another funeral establishment shall include in the
purchase agreement any amounts, itemized by funeral service, owed
by the customer to the transferring funeral establishment. The
recipient funeral establishment shall at the time of receipt of the
body remit to the transferring funeral establishment any amounts
incurred by the transferring funeral establishment.
SECTION 2. Section 651.406(e), Occupations Code, as added
by this Act, applies only to a purchase agreement entered into on or
after the effective date of this Act. A purchase agreement entered
into before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that
law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.