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Senate Bill 530 |
Senate Author: Patrick, Dan |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
House Sponsor: Davis, John |
Senate Bill 530 amends the Health and Safety Code to authorize a county that discovers cash in the possession of a deceased pauper to use the cash to pay the actual costs incurred in disposing of the pauper's body and to require the county to place any remaining cash in a trust for a specified time period to allow a person with claim to the money to exercise the right to collect the money. The bill authorizes the county to create a fund into which it may transfer unclaimed money to be used to pay costs incurred in body disposition activities.