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HCS/SB 111 - This act provides that candidates for the office of public administrator must provide to the election authority a copy of a signed affidavit from one surety company indicating that the candidate meets the bonding requirements. After being elected to office, a public administrator shall enter into bond to the state in a sum not less than ten thousand dollars with one or more securities, rather than two or more securities. These provisions are identical to SCS/SB 698 (2016) and similar to SB 495 (2015). The act also modifies the duties of a public administrator. A public administrator can exercise his or her duties as specified in statute upon the appointment by the probate court. Additionally, a public administrator no longer has the duty to take charge of all minors in certain situations, minors under the age fourteen who have no legal guardian, or has charge and custody of the estate of a deceased person when moneys are delivered from the county coroner. The act repeals provisions stating that the public administrator is the ex officio public conservator and has charge of all estates of minors pursuant to court order. Finally the act states that a guardian may execute a preneed contract for a ward's funeral services. If a next-of-kin does not exercise his or her right of sepulcher within ten days of the ward's death, then the guardian may consent for the disposition of the body. These provisions are similar to HB 921 (2017). JESSI BAKER
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