By Jones of Dallas                                    H.B. No. 2547
       74R6952 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the establishment of cemeteries in or near the
    1-3  boundaries of municipalities.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 711.008, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  Except as provided by Subsections (b), (c), (f), and
    1-9  (k), an individual, corporation, partnership, firm, trust, or
   1-10  association may not establish or operate a cemetery, or use any
   1-11  land for the interment of remains, located:
   1-12              (1)  in or within one mile of the boundaries of a
   1-13  municipality with a population of 5,000 to 25,000;
   1-14              (2)  in or within two miles of the boundaries of a
   1-15  municipality with a population of 25,000 to 50,000;
   1-16              (3)  in or within three miles of the boundaries of a
   1-17  municipality with a population of 50,000 to 100,000;
   1-18              (4)  in or within four miles of the boundaries of a
   1-19  municipality with a population of 100,000 to 200,000; or
   1-20              (5)  in or within five miles of the boundaries of a
   1-21  municipality with a population of at least 200,000.
   1-22        (f)  Subsection (a) does not apply to the establishment of a
   1-23  cemetery if it is located adjacent but not necessarily contiguous
   1-24  to a cemetery that is authorized to acquire additional land under
    2-1  Subsection (c).
    2-2        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.