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HB 421: Funeral & Cemetery Services

GENERAL BILL by Weissman ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Gottlieb

Funeral & Cemetery Services; reduces minimum acreage requirements for cemeteries; revises requirements for purchase of burial rights & for deposit of payments from sales of burial rights into care & maintenance trust funds; revises amounts required to be placed in trust for services & merchandise under preneed contract; provides limit on interest that may be held in insurance company providing security on or acting as servicing agent for preneed contract, etc. Amends Ch. 497.

Effective Date: 07/01/2002
Last Action: 3/22/2002 House - Died in Committee on Banking (CCC)
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF

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  • Bill History

    Date Chamber Action
    11/7/2001 House • Prefiled
    11/27/2001 House • Referred to Banking (CCC); General Government Appropriations (FRC); Council for Competitive Commerce
    1/22/2002 House • Introduced, referred to Banking (CCC); General Government Appropriations (FRC); Council for Competitive Commerce -HJ 00033
    3/22/2002 House • Died in Committee on Banking (CCC)

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  • HB 421, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 11/8/2001 at 12:16 AM

    Bill Text:   Web Page | PDF
    Analyses:   None

    Related Bills (2)

    Bill Number Subject Filed By Relationship Last Action and Location
    S 600 Funeral & Cemetery Services Wasserman Schultz Identical Last Action: 3/22/2002 S Died in Committee on Banking and Insurance
    Location:
    S 356 Cemeteries/Acreage Requirement Holzendorf Compare Last Action: 2/27/2002 S Withdrawn from Banking and Insurance -SJ 00346; Withdrawn from further consideration -SJ 00346
    Location:

    Citations - Statutes (10)

    Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
    497.201 Cemetery companies; license; application; fee.
    497.245 Care and maintenance trust fund, percentage of payments for burial rights to be deposited.
    497.253 Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.
    497.405 Certificate of authority required.
    497.417 Disposition of proceeds received on contracts.
    497.419 Cancellation of, or default on, preneed contracts.
    497.424
    497.425 Alternatives to deposits under s. 497.417.
    497.429 Alternative preneed contracts.
    497.441 Acceptability of funeral and burial merchandise.

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