Bill Text: TX HB1731 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.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-Comm_Sub.html
By: Davis of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) | H.B. No. 1731 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2019; | ||
May 7, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on Business & | ||
Commerce; May 20, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | ||
May 20, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1731 | By: Hancock |
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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. | ||
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