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By: Bailes (Senate Sponsor - Schwertner) |
H.B. No. 515 |
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(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019; |
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April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on |
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Business & Commerce; May 19, 2019, reported favorably by the |
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following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2019, sent to printer.) |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the establishment and operation of certain private |
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family cemeteries. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 711.008(c), Health and Safety Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a private family |
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cemetery that: |
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(1) was established and operating on or before |
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September 1, 2009; or |
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(2) is established and operating on land outside the |
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boundaries of a municipality that has been owned or occupied by |
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members of the same family for at least three generations and that |
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is within 10 miles of the largest prison cemetery in this state. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |
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