Committee lays over bills to ease mortuary licensing barriers and create internship pathways

Mar 23, 2026

The committee laid over House Files 84 and 85, bills aimed at addressing funeral‑industry workforce shortages by creating alternate reciprocal licensure pathways and earlier supervised internship options; the Minnesota Funeral Directors Association supported the measures.

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Lawmakers discussed two bills intended to address workforce shortages in Minnesota’s funeral profession and laid both over for additional work.

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