H.B. No. 2634
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.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2634 was passed by the House on April
12, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2634 was passed by the Senate on May
15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor