By: Rodriguez  S.B. No. 864
         (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2011; March 1, 2011,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
  March 22, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,
  Nays 0; March 22, 2011, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the services included in a retail price list provided by
  a funeral establishment.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 651.405, Occupations
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  "Retail price list" means a printed or typewritten list
  of the retail price of items or services provided by a funeral
  establishment and must include the retail price of:
               (1)  transferring a deceased person to the funeral
  establishment;
               (2)  embalming;
               (3)  using a funeral establishment facility for viewing
  the deceased;
               (4)  using a funeral establishment facility for funeral
  services;
               (5)  using a hearse;
               (6)  using a limousine;
               (7)  caskets;
               (8)  outer enclosures; [and]
               (9)  filing a claim seeking life insurance proceeds on
  behalf of the beneficiaries; and
               (10)  other itemized services provided by the funeral
  establishment staff.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
 
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