SB2894 - Tennessee: Funeral Directors And Embalmers

Companion Bill HB2605. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Requires a funeral establishment to store or make arrangements to store in a cold storage vault a dead human body received by the funeral establishment for burial until shortly before the funeral service and burial of the body is scheduled to occur in certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5. Fiscal Summary for SB2894 / *HB2605Increase State Revenue - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB2894 / *HB2605 This bill requires a funeral establishment that receives a dead human body later than 24 hours after the person's death to store the body in a cold storage vault if: (1) The next of kin prefers that the body not be embalmed and the funeral service and burial will not occur within 24 hours of the time the funeral establishment [...]

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