HB1675 • 2025

Relating to the interment of certain cremated animal remains with human remains in perpetual care cemeteries and the eligibility of those cemeteries for an exemption from ad valorem taxation.

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Sponsor: Campos | Garcia, Josey | Ordaz | LaHood | Johnson
Last action: 2025-04-30
Official status: 04/30/2025 S Received from the House
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to the interment of certain cremated animal remains with human remains in perpetual care cemeteries and the eligibility of those cemeteries for an exemption from ad valorem taxation.

What This Bill Does

Relating to the interment of certain cremated animal remains with human remains in perpetual care cemeteries and the eligibility of those cemeteries for an exemption from ad valorem taxation.

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Bill History

2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#1028
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-04-30 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the House
2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online
Amended. 1-Campos
2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online
Passed to engrossment as amended
2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#884
2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on Local, Consent, and Res. Calendar
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Withdrawn from calendar (contested)
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Transferred to Calendars Committee
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Local & Consent Calendars
2025-04-15 Texas Legislature Online
Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-04-10 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended to be sent to Local & Consent
2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably as substituted
2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online
Committee substitute considered in committee
2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-03-24 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Public Health
2024-12-19 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the interment of certain cremated animal remains with human remains in perpetual care cemeteries and the eligibility of those cemeteries for an exemption from ad valorem taxation.

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89(R) HB 1675 - Engrossed version - Bill Text

By: Campos, Garcia of Bexar, Ordaz, LaHood,

H.B. No. 1675

Johnson

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the interment of certain cremated animal remains with

human remains in perpetual care cemeteries and the eligibility of

those cemeteries for an exemption from ad valorem taxation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as Mona's Law.

SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 712, Health and Safety

Code, is amended by adding Section 712.010 to read as follows:

Sec. 712.010. PET INTERMENT. (a) In this section:

(1)

"Columbarium," "grave," "interment," and

"memorial" have the meanings assigned by Section 711.001.

(2)

"Pet" means a domesticated animal that an

individual owns and keeps in or near the individual's household for

the primary purpose of companionship. The term does not include a

livestock animal as defined by Section 42.09, Penal Code.

(3)

"Pet remains" means the remains of a pet carcass

that has been incinerated by an animal carcass incinerator for

which a permit has been issued by the Texas Commission on

Environmental Quality.

(b)

Notwithstanding any other law, a perpetual care

cemetery may allow:

(1)

the pet remains of a deceased individual's pet to

be:

(A)

buried in the individual's casket at the time

of the individual's interment; or

(B)

placed beside the individual's cremated

remains in a columbarium; and

(2)

information about the pet to be included on the

individual's memorial.

(c)

An individual may not euthanize a pet for the purpose of

interring the pet remains with a deceased individual.

SECTION 3. Section 11.17, Tax Code, is amended to read as

follows:

Sec. 11.17. CEMETERIES. A person is entitled to an

exemption from taxation of the property
the person:

(1)
[
he
] owns and uses exclusively for human burial
or

for human and pet burial in accordance with Section 712.010, Health

and Safety Code;
and

(2)
does not hold for profit.

SECTION 4. As soon as practicable after the effective date

of this Act, the Finance Commission of Texas shall adopt rules

necessary to implement the changes in law made by this Act.

SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.