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GA SB486
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/12/2024
Primary Sponsor
Ricky Williams
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AI Summary
- Removes the existing requirement that funeral directors must also hold an embalmer's license, establishing funeral directing and embalming as separate licenses with distinct examination, apprenticeship, and education requirements
- Expands the State Board of Funeral Service from six to seven members, adding three licensed embalmers with at least five years of practice alongside the existing three funeral director members and one consumer member, and reduces board terms from six years to four years
- Requires that the funeral director in full and continuous charge of a funeral establishment hold both a funeral director's license and an embalmer's license, and makes that person and the establishment responsible for all funeral services offered to consumers
- Requires funeral establishments to maintain and make available to the board a general price list for all services and merchandise, as well as invoices, contracts, and records of all agreements from the previous 12 months
- Revises cremated remains disposition rules to allow interment, entombment, or scattering (not just entombment) of unclaimed remains after 90 days' notice to the authorizing agent, removes the $100 cost cap, and discharges establishments from liability for proper disposition of unclaimed remains
Legislative Description
Funeral Directors and Estabishments; funeral directors be licensed embalmers; remove the requirement
Last Action
Senate Read and Referred
2/13/2024
Committee Referrals
Regulated Industries and Utilities2/13/2024
Full Bill Text
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