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Committee adopts amendment to revise funeral service code; fines capped and cremation definition updated
Summary
A committee-approved subcommittee amendment to the funeral services bill narrows the manager radius to 50 miles, caps fines at $25,000, removes a separate investigator requirement and adds alkaline hydrolysis to the definition of cremation.
The Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee adopted a subcommittee amendment and reported favorably a bill to update the state Board of Funeral Service code. Committee staff summarized the amendment as the product of agreement among the Board, the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (LLR), Consumer Affairs and stakeholders.
Rebecca, committee staff, told the panel the amendment makes several changes: it clarifies that applicants…
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