1-1 By: Farabee (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief) H.B. No. 2301
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
1-3 April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 7, 1999, reported adversely, with
1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays
1-6 0; May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2301 By: Moncrief
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the disposition of the body of a deceased pauper.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 694.002, Health and Safety Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 694.002. DUTY OF COMMISSIONERS COURT CONCERNING
1-15 DISPOSITION OF BODY OF DECEASED [BURIAL OF] PAUPERS. (a) The
1-16 commissioners court of each county shall provide for the
1-17 disposition of the body of a deceased pauper. The commissioners
1-18 court may adopt rules to implement this section [interment or
1-19 cremation of paupers. A pauper may not be cremated if a relative
1-20 or friend expresses objection to this procedure].
1-21 (b) The commissioners court shall consider any information,
1-22 including the religious affiliation of the deceased pauper,
1-23 provided by a person listed in Section 711.002(a).
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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