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SF 802 Senate Long Description

3E Modifying certain mortuary science provisions; defining and modifying the definitions of certain terms; modifying certain commissioner of health duties; providing for nonlicensed individuals to arrange for and direct or supervise memorial services under certain conditions; modifying educational and continuing education requirements; providing for the payment of renewal fees and authorizing reinstatement for emeritus registration; modifying requirements for funeral establishments; modifying change in ownership provisions; providing for initial licensure and inspection fees for crematories, providing for renewal and reinspection fees; modifying provisions relating to clinical and practicum students; authorizing a licensed person to be assisted by a nonlicensed person
for body removal from the place of death and lifting the body at the funeral establishment; modifying unprofessional conduct, disclosure of change of ownership and preventive requirements provisions; requiring certain disclosures for purchase of caskets for cremation purchase; prohibiting an embalming fee upon family selection of no embalming; modifying procedures relating to coroner or medical examiner referrals; providing for certificate of removal; making certain technical corrections; providing for retention of certificate of removal; providing for the transporting of dead human bodies by unlicensed personnel; limiting body refrigeration; modifying acceptance of delivery of body by requiring a sheet or pouch wrap and body placement on a rigid tray; repealing certain provisions relating to an embalming requirement and cremation exceptions for final disposition of dead bodies
(Ch. 114, 2007)