H.B. No. 1731
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  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.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1731 was passed by the House on May 3,
  2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 140, Nays 0, 2 present, not
  voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
  No. 1731 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 141, Nays 0,
  2 present, not voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 1731 was passed by the Senate, with
  amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays
  0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate   
  APPROVED: __________________
                  Date       
   
           __________________
                Governor