By Dutton H.B. No. 1366 74R5645 KLL-D 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 criminal 1-4 penalties. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 711.003, Health and Safety Code, is 1-7 amended to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 711.003. RECORDS OF INTERMENT. (a) A record shall be 1-9 kept of each interment in a cemetery. The record must include: 1-10 (1) the date the remains are received; 1-11 (2) the date the remains are interred; 1-12 (3) the name and age of the person interred if those 1-13 facts can be conveniently obtained; and 1-14 (4) the identity of the plot in which the remains are 1-15 interred. 1-16 (b) A cemetery association shall file copies of the records 1-17 with the county clerk of the county in which the cemetery is 1-18 located. The copies shall be filed not later than December 31 of 1-19 the year of interment of the remains to which the records pertain. 1-20 (c) A cemetery association commits an offense if the 1-21 cemetery association fails to comply with Subsection (b). An 1-22 offense under this subsection is a Class B misdemeanor. 1-23 SECTION 2. Section 711.034, Health and Safety Code, is 1-24 amended by adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: 2-1 (g) A cemetery association commits an offense if the 2-2 cemetery association fails to comply with Subsection (a), (b), (c), 2-3 or (e). An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor. 2-4 SECTION 3. Section 193.001, Health and Safety Code, is 2-5 amended to read as follows: 2-6 Sec. 193.001. Form of Certificate. (a) The department 2-7 shall prescribe the form and contents of death certificates and 2-8 fetal death certificates. 2-9 (b) The department shall require death certificates and 2-10 fetal death certificates to include the name of the place and the 2-11 identity of the plot in which a decedent's remains will be interred 2-12 or, if the remains will not be interred, the place and manner of 2-13 other disposition. 2-14 SECTION 4. A cemetery association that, on the effective 2-15 date of this Act, has not complied with Section 711.034, Health and 2-16 Safety Code, shall comply with that law not later than September 2-17 30, 1995. 2-18 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, except 2-19 that Section 2 of this Act takes effect October 1, 1995. 2-20 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the 2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.