87R16892 MCF-F
By: Moody H.B. No. 2181
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2181:
By: Johnson of Dallas C.S.H.B. No. 2181
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the removal of a decedent's remains.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 711.004(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) Remains interred in a cemetery may be removed from a
plot in the cemetery with the written consent of the cemetery
organization operating the cemetery and the written consent of the
current plot owner or owners and the following persons, in the
priority listed:
(1) the person designated in a written instrument
signed by the decedent, as described by Section 711.002(a)(1);
(2) the decedent's surviving spouse;
(3) any one of [(2)] the decedent's surviving adult
children;
(4) either one of [(3)] the decedent's surviving
parents;
(5) any one of [(4)] the decedent's surviving adult
siblings;
(6) any one of the duly qualified executors or
administrators of the decedent's estate; or
(7) any [(5) the] adult person in the next degree of
kinship in the order named by law to inherit the estate of the
decedent.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.