1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 451 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 5, 1997; February 10, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 1-4 Relations; February 24, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; 1-6 February 24, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 451 By: Carona 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to municipal perpetual trust funds for cemeteries. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 713.008, Health and Safety Code, is 1-13 amended to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 713.008. TERMINATION OF MUNICIPAL PERPETUAL TRUST FUND 1-15 BY CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. (a) The governing body of a 1-16 municipality in a county with a population of at least 122,000 but 1-17 not more than 128,000 may abolish the municipality's perpetual 1-18 trust fund for a cemetery and use the fund, including both 1-19 principal and interest, for permanent improvements to the cemetery. 1-20 (b) The governing body of a municipality with a population 1-21 of at least 185,000 but not more than 250,000, on the sale, 1-22 conveyance, transfer, or lease of a municipal cemetery, may abolish 1-23 or assign to a third party the municipality's perpetual trust fund 1-24 for the cemetery. 1-25 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-31 * * * * *