Bill Text: TX HB1731 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
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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-Engrossed.html
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-Engrossed.html
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By: Davis of Dallas | 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 amounts, itemized by funeral service, owed | ||
by the customer to the transferring funeral establishment. The | ||
recipient funeral establishment shall at the time of receipt of the | ||
body remit to the transferring funeral establishment any amounts | ||
incurred by 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 on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. A purchase agreement entered | ||
into 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. |