The Cemetery & Mortuary Association of California
Legislative Summary for July 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: Dead for this year

AB 1493, Runner – Human Remains
This bill has been amended to expand the definition of felony to include any person who commits an act of sexual penetration or has sexual contact with any human remains.
Status: Appropriation Suspense File

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 (except as conceived as a result of human cloning.)
Status: In Assembly for concurrence on amendments – Next step is Governor’s desk

AB 2007, Committee on Business and Professions
This bill would authorize a student in a program accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education to embalm human remains.
Status: Senate Judiciary Committee

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: Dead

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 7 days, the right of control passes to the next person in accordance with the order of succession provided by stature.
Status: Senate Appropriations Committee

SB 1735, Figueroa – Boards, Department of Consumer Affairs
This bill would reestablish any state positions of employment eliminated as a result of the Budget Act of 2003, when non-General Fund moneys are available for that purpose. It further exempts the Department of Consumer Affairs from the executive orders of the Governor regarding the hiring of state employees.
Status: Appropriation Suspense File

SCR 56, Figueroa
This resolution 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

AB 1950, Wiggins – Privacy of Personal Information
This bill would require a business that obtains personal information about a California resident to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.
Status: Senate Floor

AB 2889, Laird – Employment Discrimination
This bill would make employers responsible for the acts of nonemployees with respect to all forms of harassment in the workplace where the employer knew or should have known of the conduct and failed to take immediate and appropriate corrective action.
Status: Senate Appropriations

SB 1191, Alarcon – Unemployment Insurance Fund
This bill would make legislative findings regarding the solvency of the Unemployment Fund.
Status: Dead

SB 1273, Scott – Insurance Misrepresentation
The bill would increase the maximum fine and jail time for specified misrepresentations of insurance policies and for misrepresentations that induce another person to take certain actions regarding insurance.
Status: Senate Appropriations

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