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Committee lays over bipartisan green-burial bill after brief testimony
Summary
The House Health Finance and Policy Committee heard House File 2,769, a bipartisan bill to authorize and regulate green (natural organic) burials, adopted an A1 amendment and laid the bill over for possible inclusion in the omnibus package after testimony from former county officials and brief member discussion.
Representative Jeff Dotsett introduced House File 2,769, “Green Burial,” to the Health Finance and Policy Committee on April 2, 2026. The committee adopted the A1 amendment and then heard two brief testifiers before laying the bill over for possible inclusion in an omnibus bill.
The bill implements recommendations that came out of a moratorium and a Minnesota Department of Health study, according to proponents. Mark Thell, a former county…
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