By: Lambert, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 1094
         (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 2025;
  April 14, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on
  Business & Commerce; May 25, 2025, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 25, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the regulation of transportation protection
  agreements.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 154.002, Finance Code, is amended by
  amending Subdivisions (9) and (13) and adding Subdivision (15) to
  read as follows:
               (9)  "Prepaid funeral benefits" means prearranged or
  prepaid funeral or cemetery services or funeral merchandise,
  including an alternative container, casket, or outer burial
  container.  The term does not include:
                     (A)  a grave, marker, monument, tombstone, crypt,
  niche, plot, or lawn crypt unless it is sold in contemplation of
  trade for a funeral service or funeral merchandise to which this
  chapter applies; or
                     (B)  a transportation protection agreement.
               (13)  "Funeral service" or "service":
                     (A)  means a service sold or offered for sale on a
  preneed basis that may be used to:
                           (i) [(A)]  care for and prepare a deceased
  human body for burial, cremation, or other final disposition; and
                           (ii) [(B)]  arrange, supervise, or conduct a
  funeral ceremony or the final disposition of a deceased human body;
  and
                     (B)  does not include a service provided under a
  transportation protection agreement.
               (15)  "Transportation protection agreement" has the
  meaning assigned by Section 101.056, Insurance Code.
         SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 101, Insurance Code, is
  amended by adding Section 101.056 to read as follows:
         Sec. 101.056.  TRANSPORTATION PROTECTION AGREEMENTS;
  EXEMPTION FROM INSURANCE LAW.  (a)  In this section:
               (1)  "Seller" has the meaning assigned by Section
  154.002, Finance Code.
               (2)  "Transportation protection agreement" means an
  agreement to pay for transportation of a deceased human body from
  the place of death to a licensed holding facility or licensed
  crematory, if the place of death is more than 75 miles from the
  location of the licensed facility that will provide the funeral
  services. 
         (b)  A transportation protection agreement sold by a seller:
               (1)  does not constitute the business of insurance in
  this state; and
               (2)  is otherwise exempt from the requirements of this
  code.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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