Bill Text: TX HB2181 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the removal of a decedent's remains.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-10 - Considered in Calendars [HB2181 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2181-Comm_Sub.html
87R16892 MCF-F | |||
By: Moody | H.B. No. 2181 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2181: | |||
By: Johnson of Dallas | C.S.H.B. No. 2181 |
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relating to the removal of a decedent's remains. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 711.004(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Remains interred in a cemetery may be removed from a | ||
plot in the cemetery with the written consent of the cemetery | ||
organization operating the cemetery and the written consent of the | ||
current plot owner or owners and the following persons, in the | ||
priority listed: | ||
(1) the person designated in a written instrument | ||
signed by the decedent, as described by Section 711.002(a)(1); | ||
(2) the decedent's surviving spouse; | ||
(3) any one of [ |
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children; | ||
(4) either one of [ |
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parents; | ||
(5) any one of [ |
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siblings; | ||
(6) any one of the duly qualified executors or | ||
administrators of the decedent's estate; or | ||
(7) any [ |
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kinship in the order named by law to inherit the estate of the | ||
decedent. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |