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Committee reviews broad funeral- and cemetery-related bill; members ask for more work on family-burial and composting language
Summary
A comprehensive measure addressing human composting, funeral-home inspections and family-burial-plot protections drew extensive discussion; the committee deferred action and asked the bill sponsor to work with members to refine private-property access and liability language.
The committee received a lengthy presentation on a bill that would create new licensing, inspection and safety rules for alternative disposition methods (including human composting), tighten oversight of funeral homes and establish procedures and limited protections for family burial plots on private land.
The sponsor framed the bill as a set of guardrails prompted by past failures in funeral-industry oversight including the Tri-State Crematory scandal in Noble, Ga., and a recent case in which law enforcement discovered decomposing remains at an operating funeral facility in another county. "What we have now is a…
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