By:  Mowery (Senate Sponsor - Brimer)                             H.B. No. 904
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2003; 
April 15, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Business and Commerce; May 8, 2003, reported favorably by the 
following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 8, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

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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