Tex. Health & Safety Code § 576.0055 · Subchapter A. GENERAL RIGHTS
DISCLOSURE OF NAME AND BIRTH AND DEATH DATES FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) In this section, "cemetery organization" and "funeral establishment" have the meanings assigned by Section 711.001.
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, on request by a representative of a cemetery organization or funeral establishment, the administrator of a mental health facility shall release to the representative the name, date of birth, or date of death of a person who was a patient at the facility when the person died, unless the person or the person's guardian provided written instructions to the facility not to release the person's name or dates of birth and death. A representative of a cemetery organization or a funeral establishment may use a name or date released under this subsection only for the purpose of inscribing the name or date on a grave marker.
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History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 174, Sec. 1, eff. May 27, 2003.
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