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Committee hears bill to allow human and pet remains in the same interment parks
Summary
Representative Richard West introduced House Bill 632 in a public hearing before the Missouri House Committee on General Laws to allow human and pet remains to be buried together in the same plot and to apply endowed-care consumer protections to those parks.
Representative Richard West introduced House Bill 632 in a public hearing before the Missouri House Committee on General Laws to allow human and pet remains to be buried together in the same plot or in a single, dedicated parcel within an interment park and to apply endowed-care consumer protections to those parks.
The bill would amend state law that currently defines cemetery property as dedicated exclusively to human remains so that a licensed ‘‘human and pet’’ interment park could be established. West told the committee the proposal is intended to clean up statutory language and allow cemeteries to offer an option that some families are…
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