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.