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2022 SESSION
HB 615 Sale of cemeteries owned by a locality; notice to descendants.
Introduced by: Danica A. Roem | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Sale of cemeteries owned by a locality; notice to descendants. Provides that no cemetery owned by a county or city shall be sold to a private owner unless the county or city has made a good faith effort to ensure, prior to sale, that the ownership of such cemetery is vested in the estate of the last owner of record or that permission for the sale has been granted by the family members or descendants of such owner. The bill describes a good faith effort as an attempt by the county or city to contact all known family members and descendants of the last owner of record no less than three separate times by phone, mail, or visiting the last known address of record for such family members or descendants. The bill requires a county or city to keep written records of each attempt to contact a family member or descendant.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101057D pdf
- 03/10/22 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB615ER) pdf
- 04/08/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101057D
- 01/11/22 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/21/22 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/27/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- 02/03/22 House: Reported from General Laws (20-Y 1-N)
- 02/07/22 House: Read first time
- 02/08/22 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/09/22 House: Read third time and passed House (95-Y 3-N)
- 02/09/22 House: VOTE: Passage (95-Y 3-N)
- 02/10/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/10/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 03/02/22 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (13-Y 0-N 2-A)
- 03/04/22 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 03/07/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 03/08/22 Senate: Read third time
- 03/08/22 Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 03/10/22 House: Enrolled
- 03/10/22 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB615ER)
- 03/10/22 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/11/22 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/22/22 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- 03/22/22 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 04/08/22 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 281 (effective 7/1/22)
- 04/08/22 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281)