By Naishtat H.B. No. 2078 75R7228 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the disposition of a person's remains. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 711.002(g), Health and Safety Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (g) A person may provide written directions for the 1-7 disposition, including cremation, of the person's remains in a 1-8 will, a prepaid funeral contract, or a written instrument signed 1-9 and acknowledged by such person. The directions may be modified 1-10 or revoked only by a subsequent writing signed and acknowledged by 1-11 such person. The person otherwise entitled to control the 1-12 disposition of a decedent's remains under this section shall 1-13 faithfully carry out the directions of the decedent to the extent 1-14 that the decedent's estate or the person controlling the 1-15 disposition are financially able to do so. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.