By Naishtat                                     H.B. No. 2078

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                                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.