By: Davis of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) H.B. No. 1731
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019;
May 7, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Business &
Commerce; May 20, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0;
May 20, 2019, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1731 By: Hancock
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 amount owed by the customer to the
transferring funeral establishment. The recipient funeral
establishment shall remit to the transferring funeral
establishment any amount collected on behalf of 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 or
renewed on or after the effective date of this Act. A purchase
agreement entered into or renewed 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.
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