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Relating to the removal, transfer, and transportation of human remains by an unlicensed employee or agent of a funeral director
Topics:State governmentProfessional licensing
Same legislation: SF 410
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 20, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 26, 2021
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 18, 2021
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 410
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 410 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 410 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Funeral directors would be allowed to let unlicensed employees handle moving and transporting human remains before the funeral home officially takes custody of them. The board of mortuary science will create new rules to decide how this works and what training these employees must finish first. This change expands the current rules to give funeral homes more flexibility in how they move bodies.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires the board of mortuary science to adopt administrative rules to allow a funeral director, without first assuming custody of the human remains, to delegate to an unlicensed employee or agent of the funeral establishment the removal, transfer, and transportation of human remains from the place of death to a funeral establishment or other designated place. The rules shall specify the requirements for delegation, including any training an unlicensed employee or agent must complete prior to performing any removal, transfer, or transportation of human remains under the bill. 4 address the delegation of the transfer and transportation of human remains to an unlicensed employee or agent of a funeral establishment under specific circumstances. The bill requires the board to adopt administrative rules to broaden this delegation.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 26, 2021. Meeting: Thursday, February 11 · 11:30 AM · RM 24A.
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