By: Flynn (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) H.B. No. 2634
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2019;
  April 17, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Intergovernmental Relations; May 9, 2019, reported favorably by
  the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 9, 2019, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to municipal boundaries used to determine a cemetery
  location.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 711.008(e), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (e)  For the purpose of determining where a cemetery may be
  located under Subsection (a), the boundary of an area annexed by a
  municipality is not considered to be a boundary of the municipality
  if:
               (1)  no more than 10 percent of the boundary of the
  annexed area is composed of a part of the boundary of the annexing
  municipality as it existed immediately before the annexation; or
               (2)  the annexed area cannot be developed as
  residential or commercial property and is primarily used for flood
  control.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
  * * * * *