Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 88(R)

House Bill 2371	House Author: Turner et al.
Effective: 9-1-23	Senate Sponsor: Hancock et al.

House Bill 2371 amends the Health and Safety Code to authorize a municipality that has taken possession and control of an unkept or abandoned cemetery for at least 25 years to sell additional burial spaces in the cemetery after making certain maintenance and safety findings. The bill provides for the municipality to declare a plot in the cemetery as presumed abandoned, grants the municipality the exclusive right of sepulture in the abandoned plot, and authorizes the municipality to convey that right in the plot. The bill provides for the rebuttal of the presumption of abandonment and for an appeal process.