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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