File Code: Criminal Law - Substantive Crimes
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 13  
- Sponsored By: 
 - 
Delegates Cadden, Sophocleus, Rosso, Rzepkowski, Boschert,
Leopold, and Love
 
- Entitled: 
 - 
 Health - Failure
 to Properly Bury or
 Dispose of a Body - Penalties
 
Prohibiting an individual from burying or disposing of a human body
except in a family burial plot or other area allowed by a local
ordinance, a crematorium, a cemetery, or a funeral establishment; and
establishing specified penalties.
House Action
- 08/25
 - Pre-filed
 - 1/12
 - First Reading Environmental Matters
 -      Hearing 1/26 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 1/26
 - Hearing cancelled
 -      Hearing 2/9 at 1:00 p.m.
 - 3/27
 - Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
 - 3/25
 - Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
 -      Second Reading Passed with Amendments
 - 3/26
 - Third Reading Passed (136-4)
 
Senate Action
- 3/28
 - First Reading Judicial Proceedings
 - 3/29
 - Hearing 4/5 at 1:00 p.m.
 
- Sponsored by:
 - Delegate Joan Cadden, District 31
 - Delegate David G. Boschert, District 33
 - Delegate John R. Leopold, District 31
 - Delegate Mary Ann E. Love, District 32
 - Delegate Mary M. Rosso, District 31
 - Delegate James E. Rzepkowski, District 32
 - Delegate Theodore Sophocleus, District 32
 
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
 - CEMETERIES
 - CREMATION
 - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS -see also- PENALTIES; SENTENCES; etc.
 - DEATH -see also- ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES; WRONGFUL DEATH.
 - FUNERALS
 - LAW ENFORCEMENT -see also- STATE POLICE, DEPARTMENT OF
 - MEDICAL EXAMINERS
 - NOTICES
 - PENALTIES
 - PHYSICIANS -see also- DENTISTS; MED EXMNRS; PSYCH; etc
 - REPORTS
 
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
 -   Health - General
 - (
 5-101 ,
 5-203 
)
 
- Bill Text:
 First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled 
 - Fiscal Note:
 Available (PDF) 
 - Amendments:
- House 
 - Number: 290716/2 (PDF)      Offered on: March 27, 2000      at:
2:37 p.m.      Status: Adopted
 
 - Roll Call Vote (Legislative date is shown):
- House 
 - March 26, 2000: Third Reading Passed  (136-4)