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2023 SESSION
HB 2011 Family cemeteries; interment rights, proof of kinship.
Introduced by: Danica A. Roem | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Cemeteries; interment rights; proof of kinship. Allows a family member or descendant of a deceased person buried in a cemetery that is located on private property to petition the circuit court of the county or city where the property is located for interment rights upon such property. The bill provides that such family member or descendant may prove kinship to the court through official documentation or nonofficial documentation, such as obituaries, family Bibles or other documents with family signatures, journals or letters of the deceased person interred on the private property, family photographs, or other documentation deemed by the court to be reliable. The bill requires, upon satisfactory showing of proof of kinship, a private property owner to allow such family member or descendant, within two generations of immediate family descent, reasonable access to the property for the purpose of interment.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100144D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105724D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23106168D-H2 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100144D
- 01/10/23 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/18/23 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/26/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 1-N)
- 01/31/23 House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 1-N)
- 01/31/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23105724D-H1
- 01/31/23 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/01/23 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2
- 02/01/23 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- 02/03/23 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (20-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/23 House: Committee substitute printed 23106168D-H2
- 02/05/23 House: Read first time
- 02/06/23 House: Read second time
- 02/06/23 House: Committee on General Laws substitute rejected 23105724D-H1
- 02/06/23 House: Committee on Courts of Justice substitute agreed to 23106168D-H2
- 02/06/23 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2011H2
- 02/07/23 House: Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to (52-Y 46-N)
- 02/07/23 House: VOTE: Motion agreed to (52-Y 46-N)
- 02/07/23 House: Rereferred to General Laws
- 02/07/23 House: Left in General Laws