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The Cemetery & Mortuary
Association of California
Legislative Summary for March 2004
Bills
Being Watched
AB
548, Calderon – Funeral Directors and Embalmer
Examinations
This bill requires applicants to pass a National
Examination for Embalmers to be offered at least once
annually.
Status: Senate Business and Professions Committee
AB
1493, Runner Human Remains
This bill has been amended to establish felony penalties
for the offenses of sexual penetration of a dead human
body and sexual contact with a dead human body.
Status: Senate Business and Professions Committee
AB
1910, Harman, Decedent’s Estates
This bill would provide that for the purpose of providing
rights to property, to be distributed upon the death of a
decedent, a child of the decedent conceived after the
death, would have the rights deemed if the child had been
born during the decedent’s lifetime.
Status: Assembly Judiciary
AB
2229, Benoit, Birth and Death Certificates
This bill would designate a representative of an
accredited California medical school as an authorized
person who may request and receive a copy of a death
certificate.
Status: Assembly Health Committee
AB2811,
Runner, Disposition of Human Remains
This bill would add the surviving competent adult siblings
of the deceased person to the list of persons who may
control the disposition of the decedent’s remains.
It also provides that if the person(s) who control
the disposition of the decedent’s remains fail to act
within 5 days, the right of control passes to the next
person in accordance with the order of succession provided
by stature.
Status: Assembly
Public Safety Committee
SB
1191, Alarcon, Unemployment Insurance Fund
This bill would make legislative findings regarding the
need to increase the revenue in the Unemployment Fund.
Status: Senate
Labor and Industrial Relations Committee
SCR
56, Figueroa
This bill would rename the Joint legislative Sunset Review
Committee to the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions
and Consumer Protection.
Status: Signed by the Governor 2/25/04
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