2025 bills / S.B. 84
S.B. 84 Funeral Services Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill allows funeral service establishments in Utah to offer natural organic reduction, a process that turns human remains into soil-like material. It sets rules for the process, including who may oversee it, required authorization forms, recordkeeping, and how remains are handled afterward, and it makes using the resulting material to grow food unlawful.
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Official description
- defines terms
- allows a funeral service establishment to offer natural organic reduction
- requires that a funeral service director meet certain requirements if the funeral service director offers natural organic reduction
- grants immunity to a funeral service establishment that relies on a natural organic reduction authorization form in carrying out natural organic reduction
- updates a funeral service establishment's recordkeeping requirements
- provides requirements for accepting remains for natural organic reduction
- limits liability for a funeral service establishment providing natural organic reduction
- provides the requirements for authorizing natural organic reduction
- describes the procedure for natural organic reduction
- provides the requirements for the final disposition of remains from the natural organic reduction process
- categorizes the use of remains from natural organic reduction to grow food as unlawful
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 84 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 84 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Hearings and debates
- Feb 4, 2025 Senate Business and Labor Committee▶ Watch