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Relating to the removal, transfer, and transportation of human remains by an unlicensed employee or agent of a funeral director
Sponsored by the Senate State Government Committee
Topics:State governmentProfessional licensing
Same legislation: SF 107
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 20, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 26, 2021
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 18, 2021
- Stopped: Passes the SenateDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Funeral directors would be allowed to let unlicensed employees move or transport 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 about who can help move bodies from the place of death.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 18, 2022. On January 19, 2022 it recommended passage.
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