BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 2812

By: Morrison

Urban Affairs

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

There have been calls to provide more municipalities with authority to abolish the municipality's perpetual trust fund for a cemetery and use that fund, including principal and interest, for permanent improvements to a cemetery. H.B. 2812 seeks to provide that authority to additional municipalities.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 2812 amends the Health and Safety Code to authorize the governing body of a municipality in a county with a population of at least 20,000 but not more than 21,000 to abolish the municipality's perpetual trust fund for a cemetery and use the fund, including both principal and interest, for permanent improvements to the cemetery.

EFFECTIVE DATE

September 1, 2019.