H.B. No. 904




AN ACT

relating to certain nonprofit cemetery corporations.                          
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 711.023, Health and Safety Code, is 
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
	(c)  This section does not apply to a nonprofit cemetery 
corporation formed before September 1, 1963, if:
		(1)  the corporation was formed under Subdivision 87, 
Article 1302, Revised Statutes; and
		(2)  the charter or the articles of incorporation of 
the  corporation provide that the corporation has no capital stock.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 904 was passed by the House on April 
10, 2003, by a non-record vote.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 904 was passed by the Senate on May 
20, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor