Suspending limitations on conference committee
jurisdiction, H.B. No. 1538
By: Shapleigh S.R. No. 1032
SENATE RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 78th
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, That Senate Rule 12.03 be
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on
House Bill No. 1538, relating to the continuation and functions
of the Texas Funeral Service Commission, including certain
functions transferred to the commission from the Texas
Department of Health, and the powers and duties of the Texas
Finance Commission and the banking commissioner of Texas
regarding cemeteries; providing administrative and civil
penalties, to consider and take action on the following matter:
Senate Rule 12.03(4) is suspended to permit the committee
to add SECTIONs 30 and 31 to the bill to read as follows:
SECTION 30. The heading to Subchapter N, Chapter 651,
Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:
SUBCHAPTER N. LICENSING [REGISTRATION] REQUIREMENTS:
[CEMETERIES AND] CREMATORIES
SECTION 31. Section 651.652(a), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) This subchapter applies only to a [cemetery or]
crematory that sells goods or services related to the burial or
final disposition of a body.
Explanation: These changes are necessary to resolve
unintentional conflicts between this bill and enrolled and
signed House Bill No. 587, 78th Legislature, Regular Session,
2003. The added sections remove cemetery language to conform to
this bill.
Senate Rule 12.03(1) is suspended to permit the committee
to change SECTION 44 of the bill to read as follows:
SECTION 44. On March 1, 2004, Sections 651.652(b),
651.653, 651.654, and 651.655, Occupations Code, are repealed.
Explanation: The bill repealed all of Subchapter N,
Chapter 651, Occupations Code, which unintentionally conflicts
with enrolled and signed House Bill No. 587, 78th Legislature,
Regular Session, 2003. The revised section repeals only those
sections that do not conflict with the purposes of either bill.
_______________________________
President of the Senate
I hereby certify that the
above Resolution was adopted by
the Senate on June 1, 2003, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate