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2025 Texas Statutes
Finance Code
Title 3 - Financial Institutions and Businesses
Subtitle E - Other Financial Businesses
Chapter 154 - Prepaid Funeral Services
Subchapter H. Guaranty Fund
Section 154.358. Claims Against Fund

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TX Fin Code § 154.358 (2025)
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Sec. 154.358. CLAIMS AGAINST FUND. (a) The payment of a claim or expense from the fund is a matter of privilege and not of right, and a person does not have a vested right in the fund as a beneficiary or otherwise.

(b) A claim against the fund may be made by:

(1) a purchaser of a prepaid funeral benefits contract;

(2) a purchaser's estate;

(3) a permit holder or funeral provider who assumes or performs a contract; or

(4) a claimant for the benefit of a group of purchasers of prepaid funeral benefits contracts as part of a plan to arrange for another permit holder or funeral provider to assume the contract obligations.

(c) An approved claim or expense relating to a trust-funded contract may be paid only from the fund's trust-funded contract account. An approved claim or expense relating to an insurance-funded contract may be paid only from the fund's insurance-funded contract account.

Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1190 (H.B. 3762), Sec. 29, eff. September 1, 2009.

Amended by:

Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 559 (H.B. 3004), Sec. 5, eff. June 17, 2011.

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