Bill Text: TX HB788 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the establishment and use of a private family cemetery by certain organizations in certain counties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB788 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB788-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 788

AN ACT
relating to the establishment and use of a private family cemetery
by certain organizations in certain counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 711.008(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to:
(1) a cemetery heretofore established and operating;
(2) the establishment and use of a columbarium by an
organized religious society or sect that is exempt from income
taxation under Section 501(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by
being listed under Section 501(c)(3) of that code, as part of or
attached to the principal church building owned by the society or
sect;
(3) the establishment and use of a columbarium by an
organized religious society or sect that is exempt from income
taxation under Section 501(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by
being listed under Section 501(c)(3) of that code, on land that:
(A) is owned by the society or sect; and
(B) is part of the campus on which an existing
principal church building is located;
(4) the establishment and use of a columbarium on the
campus of a private or independent institution of higher education,
as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, that is wholly or
substantially controlled, managed, owned, or supported by or
otherwise affiliated with an organized religious society or sect
that is exempt from income taxation under Section 501(a), Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed under Section 501(c)(3) of
that code, if a place of worship is located on the campus; [or]
(5) the establishment and use of a mausoleum that is:
(A) constructed beneath the principal church
building owned by an organized religious society or sect that:
(i) is exempt from income taxation under
Section 501(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by being listed
under Section 501(c)(3) of that code; and
(ii) has recognized religious traditions
and practices of interring the remains of ordained clergy in or
below the principal church building; and
(B) used only for the interment of the remains of
ordained clergy of that organized religious society or sect; or
(6) the establishment and use of a private family
cemetery by an organization that is exempt from income taxation
under Section 501(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986, by being
listed under Section 501(c)(3) of that code, on land that is:
(A) owned by the organization; and
(B) located in a county:
(i) with a population of more than 125,000;
and
(ii) that is adjacent to a county that has a
population of more than 1.5 million and in which more than 75
percent of the population lives in a single municipality.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 788 was passed by the House on April
26, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 788 on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2
present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 788 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor