Bill Text: TX HB2342 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a limitation on certain civil actions brought against persons licensed by the Texas Funeral Service Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Left pending in committee [HB2342 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2342-Introduced.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 2342 | |
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| relating to a limitation on certain civil actions brought against | ||
| persons licensed by the Texas Funeral Service Commission. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 651, Occupations Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter O to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER O. CIVIL ACTION AGAINST LICENSE HOLDER | ||
| Sec. 651.701. LIMITATION ON BRINGING ACTION FOR NEGLIGENCE | ||
| INVOLVING FUNERAL SERVICE. (a) A person may not bring an action | ||
| against a license holder to recover damages for negligence | ||
| involving a funeral service unless the person is the spouse, adult | ||
| child, parent, or adult sibling of the deceased person who is the | ||
| subject of the funeral service. | ||
| (b) If a person entitled to bring an action under Subsection | ||
| (a) is incapacitated or otherwise unable to bring the action, the | ||
| person's legal guardian may bring the action on the person's behalf. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 651.701, Occupations Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a cause of action that accrues on or after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. A cause of action that accrued | ||
| before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it | ||
| existed 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, 2023. | ||
