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2004 SESSION
SB 303 Cemeteries; authorization for interment.
Introduced by: Jay O'Brien | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; Cemetery Board; financial reports; authorization for interment. Clarifies that the annual financial report that cemetery companies are required to provide the Cemetery Board for a perpetual care trust fund or preneed trust account be provided on forms prescribed by the Board. The bill also (i) authorizes a cemetery to accept the notarized signature of one next of kin of a decedent for the purpose of authorizing the interment or entombment of the deceased or the erection of a memorial or marker unless the cemetery has written notice of a dispute among the next of kin, (ii) authorizes the Board to regulate and establish qualifications for compliance agents, and (iii) provides for the cemetery to withhold services until the parties have reached mutual agreement or a court has entered an order adjudicating the issue. In addition, the bill requires the Cemetery Board to promulgate regulations within 280 days of the effective date of the act.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/04 Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/14/04 042776772 pdf | impact statement
- 03/22/04 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB303ER) pdf | impact statement
- 04/12/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/14/04 Senate: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/14/04 042776772
- 01/14/04 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/28/04 Senate: Reported from General Laws (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/04 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/04 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/04 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/03/04 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/04 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE R (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/04 Senate: Communicated to House
- 02/05/04 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/05/04 House: Read first time
- 02/05/04 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 02/17/04 House: Assigned to General Laws sub-committee: 4
- 03/02/04 House: Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N)
- 03/03/04 House: Read second time
- 03/04/04 House: Read third time
- 03/04/04 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 03/04/04 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 03/22/04 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB303ER)
- 03/22/04 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/24/04 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/24/04 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/31/04 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 247 (effective - see bill)
- 04/12/04 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0247)