1-1 By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 2078 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997; 1-3 May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 and Human Services; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the 1-5 following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the disposition of a person's remains. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Section 711.002(g), Health and Safety Code, is 1-11 amended to read as follows: 1-12 (g) A person may provide written directions for the 1-13 disposition, including cremation, of the person's remains in a 1-14 will, a prepaid funeral contract, or a written instrument signed 1-15 and acknowledged by such person. The directions may be modified 1-16 or revoked only by a subsequent writing signed and acknowledged by 1-17 such person. The person otherwise entitled to control the 1-18 disposition of a decedent's remains under this section shall 1-19 faithfully carry out the directions of the decedent to the extent 1-20 that the decedent's estate or the person controlling the 1-21 disposition are financially able to do so. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-28 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-29 * * * * *