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Latest Action: 03/21/2007 - Assigned to Subcommittee Utilities, Banking and Small Business Bill TextCemeteries - Increases area in a family burial ground that may not be disturbed or developed from 10 feet to 15 feet surrounding a gravesite and from five feet to 10 feet surrounding a crypt. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 8, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB0113 / SB0211 MINIMAL
Latest Action: 04/30/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in: Commerce Committee Bill TextCompanion Bill SB0440. Cemeteries - Authorizes a certificate of deposit be submitted for security for operation and maintenance of a cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 1, Part 2. Fiscal Summary for *HB0352 / SB0440Increase State Revenues - $71,000/Recurring $3,200/One-Time Increase State Expenditures - $71,000/Recurring $3,200/One-Time Bill Summary for *HB0352 / SB0440 Present law requires cemetery companies in the state to maintain sufficient improvement care trust funds for the maintenance, upkeep, and beautification of cemeteries. This bill allows a cemetery company to have either an improvement care trust fund or a certificate of deposit. The required amount of the certificate of deposit would be the same as the amount of cash or surety bond required to be placed in a trust fund under present law, which is dependent [...] show full description
Latest Action: 01/10/2008 - Withdrawn. Bill TextCompanion Bill SB1804. Cemeteries - Authorizes eligible persons, including family members, descendants, and friends of the deceased persons and persons conducting genealogical research, access to cemeteries and graves on private property, subject to certain limitations. - Amends TCA Title 46. Fiscal Summary for HB1354 / *SB1804 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB1354 / *SB1804 This bill requires owners and occupants of land where cemeteries and graves are located to grant access to the family members, descendants, and close friends of persons who are buried in such land and to genealogical researchers ("eligible persons") in order to visit and maintain graves, make burials, and conduct genealogical research. In order for a friend of a deceased person, of the family, or of a descendant or persons engaging in genealogical [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/21/2007 - Passed second consideration, caption bill, held on desk - pending amdt. Bill TextCemeteries - Permits commissioner of commerce and insurance to terminate temporary permit for operating cemetery by giving written notice of at least 20 days, instead of 10 days, before effective date of termination. - Amends TCA Title 46. Fiscal Summary for HB1700 / *SB1895MINIMAL
Latest Action: 04/10/2007 - Action Deferred in Subcommittee Civil Practice and Procedure of Judiciary to Summer Study Bill TextCemeteries - Deletes prohibition of engaging in acts of amusement on cemetery grounds. - Amends TCA Section 46-1-313. Fiscal Summary for HB2080 / *SB1931 MINIMAL
Latest Action: 06/27/2007 - Companion became Public Chapter 515 Bill TextCompanion Bill SB1954. Cemeteries - Authorizes cemetery companies to receive court relief from paying into improvement care trust fund when the court determines such trust fund is sufficiently large. - Amends TCA Title 46. Fiscal Summary for HB2165 / *SB1954Increase State Revenues - Less than $25,000 Increase State Expenditures - Less than $25,000 Bill Summary for HB2165 / *SB1954 Present law requires every cemetery company engaged in the business of selling lots, grave spaces, crypts, niches, and burial rights in this state to establish and forever maintain an improvement care trust fund for each separate cemetery and for each separate geographical location of each cemetery owned and operated by the cemetery company, to provide for the improvement care and maintenance of the cemetery or the separate geographical location. A certain percentage [...] show full description
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - Withdrawn. Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2203. Cemeteries - Requires a cemetery company to notify the commissioner of commerce and insurance regarding changes in the trustee for its improvement care trust fund; revises information to be included in trust agreement; revises other cemetery provisions. - Amends TCA Title 46. Fiscal Summary for *HB2258 / SB2203Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB2258 / SB2203 This bill revises present law regarding improvement care trust funds. Present law requires cemetery companies to establish and maintain an improvement care trust fund for each cemetery to provide for the improvement and care of the cemetery. Whenever a cemetery company desires to change the trustee of an improvement care trust fund, the cemetery must first provide written notice to the commissioner of commerce and insurance, along [...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/03/2007 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of: Senate C,L&A Comm. Bill TextCemeteries - Increases area in a family burial ground that may not be disturbed or developed from 10 feet to 15 feet surrounding a gravesite and from five feet to 10 feet surrounding a crypt. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 8, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for SB0211 / *HB0113 MINIMAL
Latest Action: 02/28/2007 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of C,L&A Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB0352. Cemeteries - Authorizes a certificate of deposit be submitted for security for operation and maintenance of a cemetery. - Amends TCA Title 46, Chapter 1, Part 2. Fiscal Summary for SB0440 / *HB0352Increase State Revenues - $71,000/Recurring $3,200/One-Time Increase State Expenditures - $71,000/Recurring $3,200/One-Time Bill Summary for SB0440 / *HB0352 Present law requires cemetery companies in the state to maintain sufficient improvement care trust funds for the maintenance, upkeep, and beautification of cemeteries. This bill allows a cemetery company to have either an improvement care trust fund or a certificate of deposit. The required amount of the certificate of deposit would be the same as the amount of cash or surety bond required to be placed in a trust fund under present law, which is dependent [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/07/2007 - Re-Referred to Senate Calendar Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB1354. Cemeteries - Authorizes eligible persons, including family members, descendants, and friends of the deceased persons and persons conducting genealogical research, access to cemeteries and graves on private property, subject to certain limitations. - Amends TCA Title 46. Fiscal Summary for *SB1804 / HB1354 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *SB1804 / HB1354 This bill requires owners and occupants of land where cemeteries and graves are located to grant access to the family members, descendants, and close friends of persons who are buried in such land and to genealogical researchers ("eligible persons") in order to visit and maintain graves, make burials, and conduct genealogical research. In order for a friend of a deceased person, of the family, or of a descendant or persons engaging in genealogical [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in Subcommittee Industrial Impact of Commerce of Commerce Committee Bill TextCompanion Bill SB4145. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Revises the provision governing the use of funds that are received under the pre-need seller receivership laws. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for *HB4101 / SB4145MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB4101 / SB4145 Presently under the Tennessee Prepaid Funeral Benefits Act there is a pre-need funeral consumer protection account. Funds realized from a pre-need consumer protection fee that must be paid when a pre-need seller renews its registration are deposited in the account. The fee is $20.00 for every pre-need funeral sales contract entered into during the preceding renewal period. Present law requires that the moneys be used to fund the pre-need registration program and any receivership action initiated by the commissioner against a pre-need seller to the extent [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/20/2008 - Received from Senate, held on House desk. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB4101. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Revises the provision governing the use of funds that are received under the pre-need seller receivership laws. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for SB4145 / *HB4101MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB4145 / *HB4101 Presently under the Tennessee Prepaid Funeral Benefits Act there is a pre-need funeral consumer protection account. Funds realized from a pre-need consumer protection fee that must be paid when a pre-need seller renews its registration are deposited in the account. The fee is $20.00 for every pre-need funeral sales contract entered into during the preceding renewal period. Present law requires that the moneys be used to fund the pre-need registration program and any receivership action initiated by the commissioner against a pre-need seller to the extent [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/18/2008 - Taken Off Notice For Calendar in: Commerce Committee Bill TextCompanion Bill SB3410. Cemeteries - Authorizes licensed accountants to act as trustees for improvement care trusts. - Amends TCA Title 46 and Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for *HB3150 / SB3410Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB3150 / SB3410 Present law requires a cemetery company engaged in the business of selling lots, grave spaces, crypts, niches, and burial rights in Tennessee to establish and maintain an improvement care trust fund for each separate cemetery and for each separate geographical location of each cemetery owned and operated by the cemetery company. The trust fund provides for the improvement care and maintenance of the cemetery or the separate geographical location. The trust fund must be established with a trust company approved by the commissioner, a state or national bank, or a savings [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of Senate C,L&A Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB3150. Cemeteries - Authorizes licensed accountants to act as trustees for improvement care trusts. - Amends TCA Title 46 and Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for SB3410 / *HB3150Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB3410 / *HB3150 Present law requires a cemetery company engaged in the business of selling lots, grave spaces, crypts, niches, and burial rights in Tennessee to establish and maintain an improvement care trust fund for each separate cemetery and for each separate geographical location of each cemetery owned and operated by the cemetery company. The trust fund provides for the improvement care and maintenance of the cemetery or the separate geographical location. The trust fund must be established with a trust company approved by the commissioner, a state or national bank, or a savings [...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/16/2008 - Recommended For Passage Referred to: Finance, Ways & Means Committee Bill TextVictims' Rights - Authorizes use of district attorney's fraud and economic crime funds to provide compensation to victims of cemetery plot fraud. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 3, Part 2. Fiscal Summary for *HB3038 / SB3236Other Fiscal Impact - A disbursement of funds from the fraud and economic crime fund to victims of cemetery plot fraud in an amount exceeding $10,000. A more precise cost estimate is not possible because the District Attorneys General Conference has not provided any information to assist in the preparation of this fiscal note.
Latest Action: 05/12/2008 - Assigned to Gen. Sub of: Senate Finance, Ways and Means Comm. Bill TextVictims' Rights - Authorizes use of district attorney's fraud and economic crime funds to provide compensation to victims of cemetery plot fraud. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 3, Part 2. Fiscal Summary for SB3236 / *HB3038Other Fiscal Impact - A disbursement of funds from the fraud and economic crime fund to victims of cemetery plot fraud in an amount exceeding $10,000. A more precise cost estimate is not possible because the District Attorneys General Conference has not provided any information to assist in the preparation of this fiscal note.
Latest Action: 01/23/2008 - Passed second consideration, Referred to Senate C,L&A Comm. Bill TextCompanion Bill HB2624. Cemeteries - Makes trustees of cemetery companies personally liable, in addition to being jointly liable, if perpetual care trust funds are insufficient to fund such care; requires the cemetery company to disclose to a purchaser of the right to record a copy of the proof of ownership of a burial plot with the register of deeds. - Amends TCA Title 46. Fiscal Summary for SB2900 / *HB2624Increase State Revenue - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Revenue - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB2900 / *HB2624 Present law requires a cemetery company engaged in the business of selling lots, grave spaces, crypts, niches, and burial rights in Tennessee to establish and maintain an improvement care trust fund for each cemetery [...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/29/2008 - Received from House, Passed first consideration Bill TextCompanion Bill SB2900. Cemeteries - Makes trustees of cemetery companies personally liable, in addition to being jointly liable, if perpetual care trust funds are insufficient to fund such care; requires the cemetery company to disclose to a purchaser of the right to record a copy of the proof of ownership of a burial plot with the register of deeds. - Amends TCA Title 46. Fiscal Summary for *HB2624 / SB2900Increase State Revenue - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Revenue - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB2624 / SB2900 Present law requires a cemetery company engaged in the business of selling lots, grave spaces, crypts, niches, and burial rights in Tennessee to establish and maintain an improvement care trust fund for each cemetery [...] show full description
Latest Action: 06/20/2008 - Companion became Public Chapter 1147 Bill TextCompanion Bill HB2483. Cemeteries - Requires that a notice must be published in a newspaper before filing an action to transfer remains located in a gravesite or crypt. - Amends TCA Title 46. Fiscal Summary for SB2619 / *HB2483Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB2619 / *HB2483 Under present law, an owner of real property that has a deed that reflects the presence of human remains on the property may not develop or disturb the land within 10 feet of any gravesite or within five feet of any crypt. Present law allows such an owner to transfer the remains, at the owner's expense and pursuant to the proper procedure, outlined in present law, for termination of use of land as a cemetery. This bill requires a developer of a proposed subdivision to obtain approval of the county commission before the developer [...] show full description
Latest Action: 04/01/2008 - Failed In Senate C,L&A Comm. Ayes 3, Nays 4 PNV 2 Bill TextCompanion Bill HB2473. Cemeteries - Codifies and expands the Tennessee Supreme Court decision in Hines v. State in 1911, which ensures eligible persons, including family members, descendants, and friends of the deceased persons and persons conducting genealogical research, access to cemeteries and graves on private property, subject to certain limitations. - Amends TCA Title 46. Fiscal Summary for SB2570 / *HB2473Increase State Revenue - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Revenue - Not Significant Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB2570 / *HB2473 This bill requires owners and occupants of land where cemeteries and graves are located to grant access to the family members, descendants, and close friends of persons who are buried in such land and to genealogical [...] show full description
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