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Senate committee advances bill letting funeral homes charge small administrative fee to fund preneed oversight
Summary
The State Governmental Affairs committee voted to give Senate Bill 107 a favorable report after testimony that the Board of Funeral Service needs roughly $675,000 more annually to regulate preneed funeral contracts and that a modest per-service fee (likely about $10) would cover most of the cost.
Senate Bill 107, aimed at funding state oversight of preneed funeral services, received a favorable committee report after officials and lawmakers debated how to cover the board’s operating costs.
Sponsor Senator Figures asked the committee to hear from the Department of Insurance and the Alabama Board of Funeral Service and said she would not sponsor a bill unless it was “for the best all involved.” Commissioner Fowler, representing the Department of Insurance, described a multi-year transition that moved preneed regulation from the insurance department to the Board of Funeral Services and said the department had previously been subsidizing that regulation at a deficit. "We had been…
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