1-1 By Hirschi H.B. No. 1860
1-2 75R7827 T
1-3 AN ACT
1-4 relating to the disposition of the body of a deceased pauper.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 694.002, Health and Safety Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 694.002. DUTY OF COMMISSIONERS COURT CONCERNING [BURIAL
1-9 OF PAUPERS] DISPOSITION OF THE BODY OF A DECEASED PAUPER. The
1-10 commissioners court of each county shall provide for the
1-11 [internment or cremation of paupers] disposition of the body of a
1-12 deceased pauper. [A pauper may not be cremated if a relative or
1-13 friend expresses objection to this procedure.]
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1997.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.