File Code: Public Health
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 415
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegate Reznik (By Request - State Board of Morticians and Funeral
Directors) and Delegates Waldstreicher, Carr, Elliott, Feldman, Frank, Frush,
Gaines, Hubbard, Kipke, McDonough, McHale, Smigiel, and Sophocleus
- Entitled:
-
Handling Human Remains with Dignity Act of 2012
Requiring a funeral establishment or crematory, on taking custody of
the body of a decedent in accordance with all authorizations required
by law, to maintain the body in a specified manner; requiring a
funeral establishment or crematory to maintain the body of a decedent
with refrigeration and at a specified temperature under specified
circumstances; prohibiting the body of a decedent from being embalmed
or artificially preserved except under specified circumstances; etc.
Legislative date is used to record
history occurring in the Chambers
otherwise Calendar date is used.
For explanation of terms
click here.
House Action
- 2/3
- First Reading Health and Government Operations
- 2/8
- Hearing 2/22 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/6
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Health and Government Operations
- 3/7
- Favorable with Amendments {366480/1 Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/9
- Third Reading Passed (137-0)
- 4/1
- Returned Passed
Senate Action
- 3/12
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 4/4
- Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 3/29
- Favorable Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed
- 3/30
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 5/22
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 501
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Kirill Reznik, District 39
- Delegate Alfred C. Carr, Jr., District 18
- Delegate Donald B. Elliott, District 4B
- Delegate Brian J. Feldman, District 15
- Delegate William J. Frank, District 42
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Tawanna P. Gaines, District 22
- Delegate James W. Hubbard, District 23A
- Delegate Nicholaus R. Kipke, District 31
- Delegate Pat McDonough, District 7
- Delegate Brian K. McHale, District 46
- Delegate Michael D. Smigiel, Sr., District 36
- Delegate Theodore Sophocleus, District 32
- Morticians and Funeral Directors, State Board on
- Delegate Jeff Waldstreicher, District 18
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Administrative Agencies -see also- Electronic Government
- Cemeteries
- Committees and Commissions -see also- Political Committees
- Cremation
- Death -see also- Advance Medical Directives; Wrongful Death.
- Discipline
- Funerals
- Licenses -see also- Alcoholic Bev Lic; Drivers' Licenses
- Morticians
- Notices
- Registration -see also- Motor Vehicle Registration
- Storage
- Transportation -see also- Aircraft; Airports; Boats; etc
Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Business Regulation
- (
5-101
,
5-101
,
5-310
)
- Health - General
- (
5-513
)
- Health Occupations
- (
7-101
,
7-101
,
7-316
)
All documents except Roll Call Votes are
displayed in PDF format:
- Bill Text:
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note:
Available
- Attorney General Letter:
Available
- Amendments:
House
- Number: 366480/01 Offered on: March 7, 2012 at:
10:59 a.m. Status: Adopted
-
Committee Votes :
House
- Health and Government Operations
Senate
- Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 9, 2012: Third Reading Passed (137-0)
Senate
- March 30, 2012: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
