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Committee advances bill to license and regulate human composting, sponsor cites sanitary safeguards
Summary
Senate Bill 241, which would add "organic human reduction" (human composting) to the statutory list of permitted final dispositions and require licensing and sanitary guardrails, passed the committee unanimously after testimony from an industry visitor and sponsor explanation of safeguards.
A Georgia Senate committee voted to advance Senate Bill 241, sponsor Senator Williams told the panel, to authorize and regulate human composting — described in the bill as "organic human reduction" — and to put sanitary guardrails in place.
Williams said accepted methods of disposition currently listed in law include burial, green burial, cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, and donation to medical or research institutions, and that his bill would add a regulated option for composting. "This is just human composting and ... this is tightening up and putting the guardrails," Williams said, citing other states that have legalized similar processes and industry interest in…
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