Bill Text: TX HB515 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment and operation of certain private family cemeteries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB515 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB515-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 515 | ||
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| relating to the establishment and operation of certain private | ||
| family cemeteries. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 711.008(c), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a private family | ||
| cemetery that: | ||
| (1) was established and operating on or before | ||
| September 1, 2009; or | ||
| (2) is established and operating on land outside the | ||
| boundaries of a municipality that has been owned or occupied by | ||
| members of the same family for at least three generations and that | ||
| is within 10 miles of the largest prison cemetery in this state. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 515 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 12, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 515 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
