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Committee approves licensing, oversight for human composting facilities
Summary
Senate Bill 241 (LC 550530) would add "organic human reduction facility" to existing funeral-service law, require licensing and inspections for human composting operations, and apply many of the same facility standards required of funeral homes and crematories; the committee voted to pass the bill.
Senator Williams introduced Senate Bill 241 (LC 550530) to the Regulated Industries Committee as a proactive measure to regulate human composting, sometimes described in the testimony as "organic human reduction." He said the bill would establish licensing, inspection and equipment requirements for facilities performing human composting and add that facility type to current law governing funeral services.
"So my bill is a proactive bill and is putting up safeguards so that anyone that wants to do this is gonna be have to be licensed," Senator Williams said, describing recent incidents in other states where lack of regulation led to…
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