86R26303 SOS-D
 
  By: Davis of Dallas H.B. No. 1731
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1731:
 
  By:  Vo C.S.H.B. No. 1731
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the payment for funeral services performed by a
  transferring funeral home under a purchase agreement for funeral
  services or merchandise.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 651.406, Occupations Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
         (e)  A funeral establishment that receives a dead human body
  transferred from another funeral establishment shall include in the
  purchase agreement any amounts, itemized by funeral service, owed
  by the customer to the transferring funeral establishment. The
  recipient funeral establishment shall at the time of receipt of the
  body remit to the transferring funeral establishment any amounts
  incurred by the transferring funeral establishment.
         SECTION 2.  Section 651.406(e), Occupations Code, as added
  by this Act, applies only to a purchase agreement entered into on or
  after the effective date of this Act. A purchase agreement entered
  into before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
  effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that
  law is continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.