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Oklahoma Funeral Board pitches new cremation rules, assistants license amid consumer-protection focus
Summary
At a legislative sunset review hearing, the Oklahoma Funeral Board outlined plans to tighten cremation protocols, require cremation identification discs and five-sided cremation containers, and to consider creating a funeral director assistant license. Board officials also reviewed licensing rolls, fees and common complaints.
The Oklahoma Funeral Board told a legislative committee that it will pursue rule and statute changes this year to tighten oversight of cremation and to create a new funeral director assistant license.
Executive Director Tyler Stiles told the committee during the legislature’s sunset review that cremation is now the state’s predominant disposition method, above 55 percent, and the board wants rules “to protect the consumer and the general public.” He said the board is considering a set of changes including a required metal identification disc that stays with the decedent during cremation, annual inspections for crematories and a new assistant license to help funeral homes with workload.
The metal disc proposal would require a stamped identifier placed inside the cremation chamber…
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