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Bills
Being Watched
Bills Being Watched
– Potential Industry Impact
AB
548, Calderon – Funeral Directors and Embalmer Examinations
This bill requires applicants to pass a National Examination for
Embalmers to be offered at least once annually.
Status: Dead for this year
AB
1493, Runner – Human Remains
This bill has been amended to expand the definition of felony to include
any person who commits an act of sexual penetration or has sexual
contact with any human remains.
Status: Appropriation Suspense File
AB
1910, Harman – Decedent’s Estates
This bill would provide that for the purpose of providing rights to
property, to be distributed upon the death of a decedent, a child of the
decedent conceived after the death, would have the rights deemed if the
child had been born during the decedent’s lifetime (except as
conceived as a result of human cloning.)
Status: In Assembly for concurrence on amendments – Next step is
Governor’s desk
AB
2007, Committee on Business and Professions
This bill would authorize a student in a program accredited by the
American Board of Funeral Service Education to embalm human remains.
Status: Senate Judiciary Committee
AB
2229, Benoit – Birth and Death Certificates
This bill would designate a representative of an accredited California
medical school as an authorized person who may request and receive a
copy of a death certificate.
Status: Dead
AB2811,
Runner – Disposition of Human Remains
This bill would add the surviving competent adult siblings of the
deceased person to the list of persons who may control the disposition
of the decedent’s remains. It also provides that if the person(s) who
control the disposition of the decedent’s remains fail to act within 7
days, the right of control passes to the next person in accordance with
the order of succession provided by stature.
Status: Senate Appropriations Committee
SB
1735, Figueroa – Boards, Department of Consumer Affairs
This bill would reestablish any state positions of employment eliminated
as a result of the Budget Act of 2003, when non-General Fund moneys are
available for that purpose. It further exempts the Department of
Consumer Affairs from the executive orders of the Governor regarding the
hiring of state employees.
Status: Appropriation Suspense File
SCR
56, Figueroa
This resolution would rename the Joint legislative Sunset Review
Committee to the Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions and Consumer
Protection.
Status: Signed by the Governor 2/25/04
Business
Focused Bills
AB
1950, Wiggins – Privacy of Personal Information
This bill would require a business that obtains personal information
about a California resident to implement and maintain reasonable
security procedures and practices to protect personal information from
unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure.
Status: Senate Floor
AB
2889, Laird – Employment Discrimination
This bill would make employers responsible for the acts of nonemployees
with respect to all forms of harassment in the workplace where the
employer knew or should have known of the conduct and failed to take
immediate and appropriate corrective action.
Status: Senate Appropriations
SB
1191, Alarcon – Unemployment Insurance Fund
This bill would make legislative findings regarding the solvency of the
Unemployment Fund.
Status: Dead
SB
1273, Scott – Insurance Misrepresentation
The bill would increase the maximum fine and jail time for specified
misrepresentations of insurance policies and for misrepresentations that
induce another person to take certain actions regarding insurance.
Status: Senate Appropriations
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