By: Naishtat H.B. No. 987 73R2949 KLL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to instructions for the disposition of a person's remains 1-3 and providing protection from liability for a business that carries 1-4 out those instructions. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Sections 711.002(e) and (g), Health and Safety 1-7 Code, are amended to read as follows: 1-8 (e) A person may provide instructions to direct the 1-9 preparation for and type or place of interment of the person's 1-10 remains or to direct that the person be cremated. The instructions 1-11 may be modified only in writing. The person or persons otherwise 1-12 entitled to control the disposition of the remains under this 1-13 section shall faithfully carry out the instructions of the 1-14 decedent. 1-15 (g) A cemetery association, a business operating a crematory 1-16 or columbarium or both, or a business operating a funeral 1-17 establishment is not liable for carrying out the instructions of 1-18 the decedent unless it has actual notice that the representation is 1-19 untrue. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act applies to instructions for the 1-21 disposition of a person's remains issued before, on, or after the 1-22 effective date of this Act. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.