78R19458 MXM-D

Suspending limitations on conference committee

jurisdiction, H.B. No. 1538







By:  Shapleigh                                        S.R. No. 1032


R E S O L U T I O N
	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651.654, and 651.655, Occupations Code, are repealed.
	Explanation:  The bill repealed all of Subchapter N, Chapter 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.