HBA-MSH, JEK H.B. 2114 77(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 2114 By: Allen Corrections 3/18/2001 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Under current law, there are no restrictions on who can be interred in a cemetery in relation to others interred in the same cemetery. Recently in Grand Prairie, a victim of a murder-suicide was interred in a local cemetery in close proximity to the murderer. The proximity of these interments has caused the member's of the victim's family a great deal of anxiety which will continue as long as they visit the grave site. House Bill 2114 prohibits the burial of a murderer in the same cemetery as the victim of that murder on request of the victim's family. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS House Bill 2114 amends the Health and Safety Code to prohibit an individual, corporation, partnership, firm, trust, or association that operates or owns a cemetery from interring the remains of an individual convicted of murder or capital murder if the murder victim is interred in that cemetery and the family of the victim gives written notice to the cemetery requesting that the individual convicted of murder not be interred in the cemetery. The bill sets forth penalties for a violation of this provision. EFFECTIVE DATE September 1, 2001.