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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the removal of a decedent's remains. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Section 711.004(a), Health and Safety Code, is |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(a) Remains interred in a cemetery may be removed from a |
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plot in the cemetery with the written consent of the cemetery |
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organization operating the cemetery and the written consent of the |
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current plot owner or owners and the following persons, in the |
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priority listed: |
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(1) the person designated in a written instrument |
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signed by the decedent, as described by Section 711.002(a)(1); |
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(2) the decedent's surviving spouse; |
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(3) any one of [(2)] the decedent's surviving adult |
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children; |
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(4) either one of [(3)] the decedent's surviving |
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parents; |
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(5) any one of [(4)] the decedent's surviving adult |
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siblings; |
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(6) any one of the duly qualified executors or |
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administrators of the decedent's estate; or |
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(7) any [(5) the] adult person in the next degree of |
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kinship in the order named by law to inherit the estate of the |
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decedent. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |