Amend HB 1468 (House Committee Report) by adding the
following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering
subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 711.008(b), Health and Safety Code,
is amended to read as follows:
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to:
(1) a cemetery heretofore established and operating;
(2) the establishment and use of a columbarium by an
organized religious society or sect that is exempt from income
taxation under Section 501(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by
being listed under Section 501(c)(3) of that code, as part of or
attached to the principal church building owned by the society or
sect;
(3) the establishment and use of a columbarium:
(A) in a municipality with a population of at
least 1.8 million; and
(B) by an organized religious society or sect,
that is exempt from income taxation under Section 501(a), Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed under Section 501(c)(3) of
that code, on land that:
(i) is owned by the society or sect; and
(ii) is part of the campus on which an
existing principal church building is located; [or]
(4) the establishment and use of a columbarium on the
campus of a private or independent institution of higher education,
as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, that is wholly or
substantially controlled, managed, owned, or supported by or
otherwise affiliated with an organized religious society or sect
that is exempt from income taxation under Section 501(a), Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed under Section 501(c)(3) of
that code, if a place of worship is located on the campus; or
(5) the establishment and use of a mausoleum that is:
(A) constructed beneath the principal church
building owned by an organized religious society or sect that:
(i) is exempt from income taxation under
Section 501(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed
under Section 501(c)(3) of that code; and
(ii) has recognized religious traditions
and practices of interring the remains of ordained clergy in or
below the principal church building; and
(B) used only for the interment of the remains of
ordained clergy of that organized religious society or sect.