Tex. Fin. Code § 154.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
PURPOSE.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The purposes of this chapter are to:
(1) limit the manner in which a person may accept funds in prepayment of funeral services to be performed in the future;
(2) provide a regulatory framework to give the public an opportunity to arrange and pay for funerals in advance of need; and
(3) provide all safeguards to protect the prepaid funds and to assure that the funds will be available to pay for prearranged funeral services.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1008, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FI/htm/FI.154.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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