Funeral Directors And Embalmers Legislation - Tennessee

Companion Bill SB0591. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Authorizes persons to designate that their bodies be cremated upon death; such designation must be made in writing during the deceased's lifetime and may include instruction for ash disposition; any such instructions must be followed by the person to whom the ashes are entrusted. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 5. Fiscal Summary for *HB0206 / SB0591MINIMAL Bill Summary for *HB0206 / SB0591 ON APRIL 25, 2007, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 206, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to require each funeral establishment that sells pre-need funeral services to identify to each purchaser that present law authorizes the purchaser to execute a durable power of attorney for healthcare to provide that the purchaser's wishes for the disposition of the purchaser's [...]

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Companion Bill SB2204. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Revises various provisions governing the licensing of funeral establishments, funeral directors, and embalmers. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 3. Fiscal Summary for *HB2259 / SB2204Decrease State Revenues - Not Significant State Expenditures - Net Impact - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB2259 / SB2204 This bill revises various provisions governing the licensing of funeral establishments, funeral directors and embalmers, as follows: (1) This bill revises the information to be included in the application for licensure as a funeral establishment to require that the application include: the name and address (instead of location) of the establishment, owners of the establishment, name and address of all licensed funeral directors, including the director who will act as [...]

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Companion Bill SB2264. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Enacts the "Tennessee Prepaid Funeral Benefits Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 34 and Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for *HB2286 / SB2264Increase State Revenues - $360,000 Recurring/Preneed Funeral Consumer Protection Account $110,400 Biennially $13,200 One-Time Increase State Expenditures - $55,200 Recurring $13,200 One-Time Bill Summary for *HB2286 / SB2264 This bill rewrites the present law provisions governing preneed funeral contracts. PRESENT LAW Under present law, any agreement, contract or plan requiring the payment of money in advance, whether in a lump sum or installments, which is made or entered into with any person, association, partnership, firm or corporation for the final disposition of a dead human [...]

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Companion Bill HB0206. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Authorizes persons to designate that their bodies be cremated upon death; such designation must be made in writing during the deceased's lifetime and may include instruction for ash disposition; any such instructions must be followed by the person to whom the ashes are entrusted. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 5. Fiscal Summary for SB0591 / *HB0206MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB0591 / *HB0206 ON APRIL 25, 2007, THE HOUSE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED HOUSE BILL 206, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill to require each funeral establishment that sells pre-need funeral services to identify to each purchaser that present law authorizes the purchaser to execute a durable power of attorney for healthcare to provide that the purchaser's wishes for the disposition of the purchaser's [...]

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Companion Bill HB2259. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Revises various provisions governing the licensing of funeral establishments, funeral directors, and embalmers. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 3. Fiscal Summary for SB2204 / *HB2259Decrease State Revenues - Not Significant State Expenditures - Net Impact - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB2204 / *HB2259 This bill revises various provisions governing the licensing of funeral establishments, funeral directors and embalmers, as follows: (1) This bill revises the information to be included in the application for licensure as a funeral establishment to require that the application include: the name and address (instead of location) of the establishment, owners of the establishment, name and address of all licensed funeral directors, including the director who will act as [...]

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Companion Bill HB2286. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Enacts the "Tennessee Prepaid Funeral Benefits Act." - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 34 and Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for SB2264 / *HB2286Increase State Revenues - $360,000 Recurring/Preneed Funeral Consumer Protection Account $110,400 Biennially $13,200 One-Time Increase State Expenditures - $55,200 Recurring $13,200 One-Time Bill Summary for SB2264 / *HB2286 This bill rewrites the present law provisions governing preneed funeral contracts. PRESENT LAW Under present law, any agreement, contract or plan requiring the payment of money in advance, whether in a lump sum or installments, which is made or entered into with any person, association, partnership, firm or corporation for the final disposition of a dead human [...]

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Companion 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 [...]

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Companion 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 [...]

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Companion Bill SB3411. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Changes the definition of trustee under the "Tennessee Prepaid Funeral Benefits Act" to include, from July, 1, 2008, to July 1, 2001, certain certified public accountants. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 34 and Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for HB3611 / *SB3411Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB3611 / *SB3411 Present law requires a trustee of a pre-need funeral trust to be a state or national bank, federally chartered savings and loan association, state chartered trust company, or, in the discretion of the commissioner of commerce and insurance, a licensed securities brokerage firm. A pre-need funeral trust is a trust held to provide for a contract for funeral services, personal property or merchandise, or services of any nature in connection with [...]

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Companion Bill HB3611. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Changes the definition of trustee under the "Tennessee Prepaid Funeral Benefits Act" to include, from July, 1, 2008, to July 1, 2001, certain certified public accountants. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 34 and Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for *SB3411 / HB3611Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *SB3411 / HB3611 Present law requires a trustee of a pre-need funeral trust to be a state or national bank, federally chartered savings and loan association, state chartered trust company, or, in the discretion of the commissioner of commerce and insurance, a licensed securities brokerage firm. A pre-need funeral trust is a trust held to provide for a contract for funeral services, personal property or merchandise, or services of any nature in connection with [...]

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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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Companion Bill HB2606. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Requires funeral directors to disclose to the purchaser of a funeral service that it is a violation of the law for a funeral establishment to refuse to surrender the custody of a dead human body to the person legally entitled to custody; removes exemption from continuing education requirements if disciplinary action is taken against a licensee by the board. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5. Fiscal Summary for SB2896 / *HB2606Increase State Revenue - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for SB2896 / *HB2606 Federal law requires a funeral director to make certain disclosures to a consumer regarding funeral and burial practices. This bill requires a funeral director to make a written disclosure of the following information to the purchaser of a funeral [...]

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Companion Bill HB2607. Law Enforcement - Requires local law enforcement to begin an investigation within 12 hours of receiving a report of an alleged violation by a funeral director of abuse of a corpse or concerning the handling, custody, care, or transportation of dead human bodies. - Amends TCA Section 39-17-312 and Title 62, Chapter 5. Fiscal Summary for SB2895 / *HB2607MINIMAL Bill Summary for SB2895 / *HB2607 Under present law, the board of funeral directors and embalmers may suspend, revoke, or refuse to grant or renew a license to a funeral establishment, funeral director, or embalmer for certain violations. Such violations include: (1) Unreasonably refusing to promptly surrender the custody of a dead human body upon the express order of the person lawfully entitled to the custody of the body; or (2) Any willful violation [...]

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Companion Bill SB2705. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Creates exemption to the prohibition against irrevocable assignments of prearrangement insurance policy benefits to a funeral establishment and authorizes the commissioner of commerce and insurance to disapprove a previously approved pre-need funeral contract that violates the filing and form requirements for pre-need funeral contracts. - Amends TCA Title 56, Chapter 34 and Title 62, Chapter 5, Part 4. Fiscal Summary for HB2763 / *SB2705Increase State Revenue - $10,900/One-Time/Pre-Need Restitution Account $76,300/Recurring/Pre-Need Restitution Account Not Significant/General Fund Increase State Expenditures - $10,900/One-Time/Pre-Need Restitution Account $76,300/Recurring/Pre-Need Restitution Account Not Significant/General Fund Increase Local [...]

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Companion Bill SB2894. 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 *HB2605 / SB2894Increase State Revenue - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB2605 / SB2894 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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Companion Bill SB2896. Funeral Directors and Embalmers - Requires funeral directors to disclose to the purchaser of a funeral service that it is a violation of the law for a funeral establishment to refuse to surrender the custody of a dead human body to the person legally entitled to custody; removes exemption from continuing education requirements if disciplinary action is taken against a licensee by the board. - Amends TCA Title 62, Chapter 5. Fiscal Summary for *HB2606 / SB2896Increase State Revenue - Not Significant Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB2606 / SB2896 Federal law requires a funeral director to make certain disclosures to a consumer regarding funeral and burial practices. This bill requires a funeral director to make a written disclosure of the following information to the purchaser of a funeral [...]

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