Bill Text: TX SB864 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of funeral establishments, including requirements for a retail price list of services provided by such establishments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB864 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB864-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Rodriguez S.B. No. 864
(In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2011; March 1, 2011,
read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
March 22, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; March 22, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the services included in a retail price list provided by
a funeral establishment.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 651.405, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) "Retail price list" means a printed or typewritten list
of the retail price of items or services provided by a funeral
establishment and must include the retail price of:
(1) transferring a deceased person to the funeral
establishment;
(2) embalming;
(3) using a funeral establishment facility for viewing
the deceased;
(4) using a funeral establishment facility for funeral
services;
(5) using a hearse;
(6) using a limousine;
(7) caskets;
(8) outer enclosures; [and]
(9) filing a claim seeking life insurance proceeds on
behalf of the beneficiaries; and
(10) other itemized services provided by the funeral
establishment staff.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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