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  H.B. No. 1571
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to an exemption for certain cemeteries from cemetery
  location restrictions.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 711.008, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (l) to read as follows:
         (l)  Subsection (a) does not apply to a cemetery established
  and operating before September 1, 2023, in a municipality:
               (1)  with a population of not less than 75,000 and not
  more than 95,000; and
               (2)  in which a state veterans cemetery is located.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1571 was passed by the House on April
  9, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 1, 2 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 1571 on May 20, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 0,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1571 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 17, 2021, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor