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TX HB1675
Bill
Status
4/30/2025
Primary Sponsor
Elizabeth Campos
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AI Summary
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Officially designated as "Mona's Law," permits perpetual care cemeteries to allow cremated pet remains to be buried in a deceased owner's casket or placed beside the owner's cremated remains in a columbarium
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Defines "pet" as a domesticated companion animal kept in or near a household, explicitly excluding livestock animals
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Requires pet remains to be incinerated by a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality-permitted animal carcass incinerator before interment
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Prohibits euthanizing a pet for the purpose of interring its remains with a deceased individual
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Amends Tax Code to ensure cemeteries allowing combined human and pet burial under these provisions remain eligible for ad valorem tax exemption if operated on a nonprofit basis
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Directs the Finance Commission of Texas to adopt implementing rules, with an effective date of September 1, 2025
Legislative Description
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.
Animals
Last Action
Received from the House
4/30/2025