E Establishing requirements for the sale of funeral goods and services and preneed funeral arrangements; defining burial site goods and burial site services and preneed consumer and clarifying the definition of funeral provider; authorizing the commissioner of health to prohibit certain funeral providers from selling preneed funeral or burial site goods or services for violation, providing for the issuance of cease and desist orders, hearing requirement upon request; prohibiting funeral provider solicitations under certain conditions, exception; requiring funeral establishments and providers to disclose ownership and ownership changes and offerings or prices of cemetery specific goods and services, defining change in ownership, requiring the disclosure of the availability of price lists at container sale locations and the price ranges for markers and headstones; modifying certain itemized statement signature requirements; requiring provider provision of copies of preneed arrangement documents to persons controlling final disposition of the remains of individuals with preneed arrangements; specifying the charging of increased prices for the handling of goods or services based on purchase of the goods or services from another provider and the requiring as a condition of providing funeral or burial site goods purchase in lieu of rental as deceptive acts or practices; prohibiting providers from interring outer burial containers until the death of the beneficiary; specifying certain preneed funeral arrangement agreement and trust requirements; prohibiting finance charges on preneed arrangements; requiring and providing for refund of consideration paid upon cancellation of preneed arrangement agreements by purchasers; requiring the commissioner to make recommendations to the legislature by a certain date on the need for additional funding for ongoing implementation of the regulatory provisions with proposals for an alternative funding source (mk, ja)