1-1 By: Hirschi (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 1860
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 1997;
1-3 April 14, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; April 29, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1; April 29, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the disposition of the body of a deceased pauper.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 694.002, Health and Safety Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 694.002. DUTY OF COMMISSIONERS COURT CONCERNING
1-13 DISPOSITION OF BODY OF DECEASED PAUPER [BURIAL OF PAUPERS]. The
1-14 commissioners court of each county shall provide for the
1-15 disposition of the body of a deceased pauper [interment or
1-16 cremation of paupers]. [A pauper may not be cremated if a relative
1-17 or friend expresses objection to this procedure.]
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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