H.B. No. 1731
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.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1731 was passed by the House on May 3,
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 1731 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1731 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor