What's happening
This bill expands the legal definition of cremation in New York to include cemetery board-approved alternative processes beyond heat and flame.
Why it matters
Broadens options for handling human remains. by allowing innovative or environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional flame-based cremation, such as alkaline hydrolysis ("water cremation") or other future technologies, if approved by the cemetery board.
Gives regulatory flexibility. to the cemetery board, empowering it to assess and authorize new cremation methods through regulations, which allows New York to adapt to changing technologies and societal preferences without requiring another legislative change.
May impact consumer choice and environmental policy. , providing families with more options for end-of-life arrangements, possibly including methods that produce less pollution or use fewer resources than conventional cremation.
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Who cares
Cemetery board
The bill would empower the board to authorize other technical processes for reducing human remains to cremains through regulations if it deems them in the public interest.
Crematory operators
The expanded definition would recognize board-authorized alternatives to the existing heat-and-flame cremation process.
Families arranging cremation
The bill could expand their options for handling human remains if the cemetery board authorizes additional processes.
Headline styles
Expand Cremation Definition
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Sponsors
3 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Expand Cremation Methods
In Senate Committee · Corporations, Authorities And Commissions · Sponsor Michael H. Ranzenhofer
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
10006
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2018
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, DINOWITZ, GALEF, MONTESANO, SEAWRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the not-for-profit corporation law, in relation to the definition of cremation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (h) of section 1502 of the not-for-profit corporation law, as added by chapter 579 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
(h) The term "cremation" means the technical process[,] using heat and flame[,] that reduces human remains to ashes and other residue or any other technical process to reduce human remains to cremains that the cemetery board deems in the public interest and authorizes pursuant to regulations promulgated by the cemetery board. "Cremation" shall include the processing, and may include the pulverization, of such ashes and other residue.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07528-01-7
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