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Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 82(R)

House Bill 2286

House Author:  Gonzales, Veronica

Effective:  6-17-11

Senate Sponsor:  Hinojosa


            House Bill 2286 amends the Occupations Code to require a funeral director who contracts with a customer to perform funeral directing, or an agent of the funeral establishment, to be present when the casket containing the human body to which the contract applies is placed in a grave, crypt, or burial vault unless interment or entombment takes place at a location outside Texas. The bill specifies that funeral directing duties related to interment or entombment services are complete when the casket is placed in a grave, crypt, or burial vault.