The Florida Senate

SB 1924: Funeral & Cemetery Services

GENERAL BILL by Pruitt

Funeral & Cemetery Services; revises references re burial records & need determinations; provides & revises definitions; provides membership & terms of Board of Funeral Directors, Embalmers, & Cemetery Services; increases minimum acreage requirements to establish cemetery company; requires permanent labels on containers used for inurnment of human remains; provides for future placement of said board within Banking & Finance Dept., etc. Amends Chs. 470, 497.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  3/6/2001	Senate	• Filed
  3/19/2001	Senate	• Introduced, referred to Banking and Insurance; Governmental Oversight and Productivity; Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government; Appropriations -SJ 00188
  3/28/2001	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 04/02/01, 2:00 pm, 110-S --Not considered
  4/4/2001	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 04/09/01, 12:00 Noon, 110-S --Not considered
  4/11/2001	Senate	• On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 04/16/01, 1:00 pm, 110-S --Not considered
  5/4/2001	Senate	• Died in Committee on Banking and Insurance, Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to CS/SB 1610 (Ch. 2001-120)

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• SB 1924, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 3/15/2001 at 12:58 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	None

  Related Bills (4)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  H 991 (c1)	Funeral & Cemetery Services	Mayfield	Similar	Last Action: 4/27/2001 H Placed on Special Order Calendar; Senate Bill substituted; Laid on Table, Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to CS/SB 1610 (Ch. 2001-120) Location:
  H 1399	Funeral & Cemetery Services	Lynn	Similar	Last Action: 5/4/2001 H Died in Committee on Banking (CCC), Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to CS/SB 1610 (Ch. 2001-120) Location:
  S 1610 (c1)		Latvala	Similar	Last Action: 5/31/2001 Approved by Governor; Chapter No. 2001-120 Location:
  H 181	Funeral & Cemetery Services	Lynn	Compare	Last Action: 1/23/2001 H Withdrawn prior to introduction,Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to CS/SB 1610 (Ch. 2001-120) -HJ 00025 Location:

  Citations - Statutes (24)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  470.002	Definitions.
  470.003	Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers; membership; appointment; terms.
  470.0396
  497.003	Cemeteries; exemption; investigation and mediation.
  497.005	Definitions.
  497.101	Board of Funeral and Cemetery Services; membership; appointment; terms.
  497.103	Rulemaking authority of board and department.
  497.105	Department of Banking and Finance; powers and duties.
  497.107	Headquarters.
  497.109	Board of Funeral and Cemetery Services; membership.
  497.201	Cemetery companies; license; application; fee.
  497.237	Care and maintenance trust fund; remedy of department for noncompliance.
  497.245	Care and maintenance trust fund, percentage of payments for burial rights to be deposited.
  497.253	Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.
  497.257	Construction of mausoleums, columbaria, and belowground crypts; preconstruction trust fund; compliance requirement.
  497.258
  497.309	Records.
  497.337	Prohibition on sale of personal property or services.
  497.353	Owners to provide addresses; presumption of abandonment; abandonment procedures; sale of abandoned unused burial rights.
  497.405	Certificate of authority required.
  497.413	Preneed Funeral Contract Consumer Protection Trust Fund.
  497.417	Disposition of proceeds received on contracts.
  497.425	Alternatives to deposits under s. 497.417.
  497.429	Alternative preneed contracts.

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