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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the payment for funeral services performed by a |
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transferring funeral home under a purchase agreement for funeral |
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services or merchandise. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 651.406, Occupations Code, is amended by |
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adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: |
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(e) A funeral establishment that receives a dead human body |
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transferred from another funeral establishment shall include in the |
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purchase agreement any amounts, itemized by funeral service, owed |
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by the customer to the transferring funeral establishment. The |
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recipient funeral establishment shall at the time of receipt of the |
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body remit to the transferring funeral establishment any amounts |
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incurred by the transferring funeral establishment. |
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SECTION 2. Section 651.406(e), Occupations Code, as added |
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by this Act, applies only to a purchase agreement entered into on or |
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after the effective date of this Act. A purchase agreement entered |
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into before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in |
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effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that |
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law is continued in effect for that purpose. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |