Texas Finance Code - FIN § 154.001. Purpose

(1) limit the manner in which a person may accept funds in prepayment of funeral services to be performed in the future;

(2) provide a regulatory framework to give the public an opportunity to arrange and pay for funerals in advance of need;  and

(3) provide all safeguards to protect the prepaid funds and to assure that the funds will be available to pay for prearranged funeral services.