1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the disposition of the body of a deceased pauper.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 694.002, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 694.002. DUTY OF COMMISSIONERS COURT CONCERNING
1-7 DISPOSITION OF BODY OF DECEASED [BURIAL OF] PAUPERS. (a) The
1-8 commissioners court of each county shall provide for the
1-9 disposition of the body of a deceased pauper. The commissioners
1-10 court may adopt rules to implement this section [interment or
1-11 cremation of paupers. A pauper may not be cremated if a relative
1-12 or friend expresses objection to this procedure].
1-13 (b) The commissioners court shall consider any information,
1-14 including the religious affiliation of the deceased pauper,
1-15 provided by a person listed in Section 711.002(a).
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2301 was passed by the House on April
16, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2301 on May 19, 1999, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2301 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 17, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor