By Dutton H.B. No. 1366 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1366: By Coleman C.S.H.B. No. 1366 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to information in county records and on death certificates 1-3 concerning places in which remains are interred; providing civil 1-4 penalties. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 711.034, Health and Safety Code, is 1-7 amended by amending Subsections (a) and (e) and adding Subsection 1-8 (g) to read as follows: 1-9 (a) A cemetery organization that acquires property for 1-10 interment purposes shall: 1-11 (1) in the case of land, survey and subdivide the 1-12 property into gardens or sections, with descriptive names or 1-13 numbers, and make a map or plat of the property showing the plots 1-14 contained within the perimeter boundary and showing a specific 1-15 unique number for each plot; or 1-16 (2) in the case of a mausoleum or a crematory and 1-17 columbarium, make a map or plat of the property delineating 1-18 sections or other divisions with descriptive names and numbers and 1-19 showing a specific unique number for each crypt, lawn crypt, or 1-20 niche. 1-21 (e) The certificate or declaration may contain a provision 1-22 permitting the directors by order to resurvey and change the shape 1-23 and size of the property for which the associated map or plat is 1-24 filed if that change does not disturb any interred remains. If a 2-1 change is made, the cemetery organization shall file an amended map 2-2 or plat and shall indicate any change in a specific unique number 2-3 assigned to a plot, crypt, lawn crypt, or niche. 2-4 (g) A cemetery association is civilly liable to the state in 2-5 an amount not to exceed $1,000 for each map or plat that fails to 2-6 comply with Subsection (a), (b), (c), or (e). 2-7 SECTION 2. Section 193.001, Health and Safety Code, is 2-8 amended to read as follows: 2-9 Sec. 193.001. Form of Certificate. (a) The department 2-10 shall prescribe the form and contents of death certificates and 2-11 fetal death certificates. 2-12 (b) The department shall require death certificates and 2-13 fetal death certificates to include the name of the place and the 2-14 specific number of the plot, crypt, lawn crypt, or niche in which a 2-15 decedent's remains will be interred or, if the remains will not be 2-16 interred, the place and manner of other disposition. 2-17 (c) The bureau of vital statistics and each local registrar 2-18 shall make the information provided under Subsection (b) available 2-19 to the public and may charge a fee in an amount prescribed under 2-20 Section 191.0045 for providing that service. 2-21 SECTION 3. A cemetery association that, on the effective 2-22 date of this Act, has not complied with Section 711.034, Health and 2-23 Safety Code, shall comply with that law not later than September 2-24 30, 1995. 2-25 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, except 2-26 that Section 1 of this Act takes effect October 1, 1995. 2-27 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the 3-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.