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Tennessee burial-services rules get clerical updates; preneed deposit window shortened to 15 days
Summary
At an April 30, 2026, rulemaking hearing, the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance proposed mainly clerical amendments to burial-services rules, including shortening the preneed funds deposit period from 30 to 15 days, deleting outdated fees and links, and raising some civil-penalty minimums.
TROY BRYANT, associate general counsel for the Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance, read a package of mostly clerical amendments to the department's Burial Services Program rules at a rulemaking hearing on April 30, 2026, in Nashville.
The proposed changes would update references to the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPIU annual averages and remove outdated URLs and an infrequently purchased LexisNexis Tennessee funeral law packet and its associated fee. Bryant said the amendments also delete an obsolete requirement that community cemetery exemption requests be submitted in "typewritten form on 8 and a half inch paper." Robert Gribble, the burial services executive director, said notice of the hearing was posted on…
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