By Coleman H.B. No. 2707
76R8662 CMR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to funeral expenses for children in foster care.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 264.012, Family Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 Sec. 264.012. FUNERAL EXPENSES FOR CHILD IN FOSTER CARE.
1-7 The department shall [may] spend funds appropriated for the child
1-8 protective services program to pay reasonable and necessary funeral
1-9 expenses for a child for whom the department has been appointed
1-10 managing conservator and who dies in foster care.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.