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Senate adopts bill recognizing service-member directives for disposition of remains
Summary
The Senate passed House Bill 208 to give legal effect to a service member’s designation on the federal DD Form 93 (PADD) so that an active-duty service member’s predesignation of who may direct disposition is recognized in state law; supporters included veterans’ representatives and funeral directors, and a proposed amendment to lower the form’s priority in the pecking order failed.
House Bill 208 was debated at length after Senator Bramble explained the bill aligns state pecking-order rules for disposition of remains with the federal Record of Emergency Data (DD Form 93) used by service members.
“This form has specifically in it the criteria, it says enter the name and relationship of the person authorized to direct disposition … only the following persons may be named as a PADD, surviving spouse, blood…
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