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Sponsor reintroduces bill to authorize human composting and water cremation; Department of Health requests regulatory detail
Summary
Representative Magogia reintroduced House Bill 5110 to permit natural organic reduction (human composting) and added alkaline hydrolysis (water cremation); sponsor said nearby states already allow these disposition methods and the Department of Health raised questions about regulatory specifics and enforcement costs.
Representative Magogia reintroduced House Bill 5110 to allow natural organic reduction (also called human composting) and, in an amended form this year, to add alkaline hydrolysis (sometimes called water cremation) as lawful methods of human disposition in the state.
The sponsor said…
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