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HCS/HB 618 - This act provides that if a funeral director has knowledge that there are multiple people who have equal priority to choose and control the final disposition of a dead human body and who do not agree on the disposition, then the decision of the majority of the people with equal priority shall control the disposition. The act also states that a person who owns a cemetery is authorized to disinter an individual's remains and rebury or reinter the remains at another location pursuant to written instructions signed and acknowledged by a person who was the next-of kin, as defined in statute, at the time of death. If the next-of-kin at the time of death is no longer living then a majority of certain adult members, as specified in statute, may authorize the disinterment. Currently, cemetery owners are not liable to the deceased person's family for a disinterment, relocation or delivery of deceased human remains performed pursuant to statute. This act provides that cemetery owners, cemetery operators, funeral directors, funeral establishment or any other entity involved in the process shall not be liable in such situations. This act is substantially similar to the perfected version of SCS/SB 416 (2015). JESSI BAKER
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