House Bill 6290 Summary

• Changes language in funeral establishment management requirements from "shall" to "must" regarding manager licensing and branch establishment oversight.

• Requires funeral establishments to have refrigeration units capable of housing dead human bodies, with minimum capacity calculated based on the number of bodies processed in the preceding calendar year (annual total ÷ 12 ÷ 4).

• Mandates that within 24 hours of a dead human body arriving at a funeral establishment, the body must be either embalmed or placed in a refrigeration unit maintained at no more than 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Reorganizes preparation room requirements to specify that funeral establishments must contain both a preparation room with tile/cement/composition flooring and drainage/ventilation, plus necessary instruments and supplies for body preparation and embalming.