l9n/ Mississippi

2018 Regular Session

House Bill 1427

Disinterment of dead human remains; define circumstances when cemetery owners may do, and provide them with certain immunity.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Public Health and Human Services Committee on January 30, 2018. The 2018 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CEMETERY OWNERS TO DISINTER DEAD HUMAN REMAINS FOR REINTERMENT OR BURIAL OR FOR TRANSPORTATION FROM THE CEMETERY PURSUANT TO WRITTEN INSTRUCTIONS OF THE NEXT OF KIN AT THE TIME OF DEATH, OR PURSUANT TO A FINAL ORDER OF THE CHANCERY COURT IN THE COUNTY WHERE THE CEMETERY IS LOCATED, OR IN ORDER TO CORRECT AN ERROR MADE IN THE ORIGINAL BURIAL OR INTERMENT OF THE REMAINS; TO PROVIDE IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY FOR CEMETERY OWNERS, CEMETERY OPERATORS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS, FUNERAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND OTHER PERSONS AND ENTITIES INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS OF DISINTERMENT, RELOCATION OR DELIVERY OF DEAD HUMAN REMAINS MADE PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION; TO AMEND SECTIONS 41-37-25 AND 41-39-117, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

Its course

January 15 to January 30, 2018, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 15 to Jan 30 · stopped15 days

Public Health and Human ServicesJan 15 to Jan 30 · stopped15 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 15 – Jan 30

  1. Jan 15Referred to the House committee on Public Health and Human Services
  2. Jan 30Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Jan 15Referred To Public Health and Human ServicesHouse of Representatives
  2. Jan 30Died In CommitteeHouse of Representatives