By: Flynn (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 2634
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019;
April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
Intergovernmental Relations; May 9, 2019, reported favorably by
the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 9, 2019, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to municipal boundaries used to determine a cemetery
location.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 711.008(e), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(e) For the purpose of determining where a cemetery may be
located under Subsection (a), the boundary of an area annexed by a
municipality is not considered to be a boundary of the municipality
if:
(1) no more than 10 percent of the boundary of the
annexed area is composed of a part of the boundary of the annexing
municipality as it existed immediately before the annexation; or
(2) the annexed area cannot be developed as
residential or commercial property and is primarily used for flood
control.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
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