Bill Text: TX HB1731 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the payment for funeral services performed by a transferring funeral home under a purchase agreement for funeral services or merchandise.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB1731 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1731-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1731 | ||
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| 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 amount owed by the customer to the | ||
| transferring funeral establishment. The recipient funeral | ||
| establishment shall remit to the transferring funeral | ||
| establishment any amount collected on behalf of 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 or | ||
| renewed on or after the effective date of this Act. A purchase | ||
| agreement entered into or renewed 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1731 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 1731 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1731 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
