By Hirschi H.B. No. 1860
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the disposition of the body of a deceased pauper.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 694.002, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 694.002. DUTY OF COMMISSIONERS COURT CONCERNING
1-7 DISPOSITION OF BODY OF DECEASED PAUPER [BURIAL OF PAUPERS]. The
1-8 commissioners court of each county shall provide for the
1-9 disposition of the body of a deceased pauper [interment or
1-10 cremation of paupers]. [A pauper may not be cremated if a relative
1-11 or friend expresses objection to this procedure.]
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.