Tex. Health & Safety Code § 696.005 · Chapter 696. DISPOSITION OF UNCLAIMED CREMATED REMAINS
CIVIL IMMUNITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person who releases verification information as authorized by this chapter or who transfers cremated remains to a veterans' service organization or a veterans cemetery as authorized by this chapter is immune from civil liability for damages resulting from the release or transfer.
(b) A veterans' service organization that inters cremated remains in a veterans cemetery as authorized by this chapter is immune from civil liability for damages arising from the interment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 373 (H.B. 3064), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.696.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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