2021-Virginia Bill favors embalmers, limits competition
Senate Bill 1424 would require any funeral home manager to be a licensed embalmer. This restriction serves no consumer protection ...
Maine, 2013–preneed insurance voted down
With the help of the FCA of Maine, lawmakers squashed a bill backed by funeral giant Service Corporation International (also ...
Montana running amok. . .again
For the backstory on Montana’s war on affordable funerals, see: Montana Funeral Directors Try to Shut Down Competition Montana: The ...
Logos in the Lonestar State-2012
6/20/2012—Kudos to Jim Bates of the FCA of North Texas for getting the state to require funeral homes to tell the ...
Iowa Gives Undertakers Unfair Advantage
4/27/2012—To our shock, a recently passed bill (HF2369) takes away the ability of local registrars to issue burial-transit permits. Home ...
Oregon funeral directors at it again-2012
UPDATE 2/22/12—It looks as though SB 1502 never got out of committee, and some well-placed friends tell us industry lobbyists ...
Virginia Wants to Ban Alkaline Hydrolysis? -2012
1/22/2012—Someone in the state of Virginia has a case of the “ickies.” If not we can’t imagine why the state ...
Wisconsin trade group tries to undo “combo” ban
UDATE 3/11/2012—The bill has died in committee. 1/11/12—Once again cemetery owners are trying to undo the state’s ban on combination ...
California – SB 658 requires online prices, 2011
March 15, 2011—A first-in-the nation California bill, SB 658, would require funeral homes to post their price lists online if ...
Minnesota -2010, Caring for Your Own Dead
UPDATE— HF3151 has passed both the House and Senate, and only awaits the governor’s signature to become law. The bill ...