H.B. No. 2286
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to the duties of a funeral director or an agent at the
  interment or entombment of a human body.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 651, Occupations Code, is
  amended by adding Section 651.4085 to read as follows:
         Sec. 651.4085.  INTERMENT OR ENTOMBMENT. (a)  A funeral
  director who contracts with a customer to perform funeral directing
  under this chapter, or an agent of the funeral establishment, shall
  be present when the casket containing the human body to which the
  contract applies is placed in a grave, crypt, or burial vault unless
  interment or entombment takes place at a location outside this
  state.
         (b) The funeral directing duties related to interment or
  entombment services are complete when the casket is placed in a
  grave, crypt, or burial vault.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2286 was passed by the House on April
  26, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 148, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 2286 was passed by the Senate on May
  19, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0
  .
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor