Rep. Dan Brady

Filed: 3/24/2017

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3488

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3488 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5Disposition of Remains of the Indigent Act.
 
6    Section 5. Purpose. The General Assembly recognizes:
7        (1) that each individual in the State regardless of his
8    or her economic situation is entitled to a dignified
9    disposition of his or her remains;
10        (2) that it is a matter of public concern and interest
11    that the preparation, care, and final disposition of a
12    deceased human body be attended to with appropriate
13    observance and understanding;
14        (3) that it is a matter of public concern and interest
15    that there is a due regard and respect for the reverent
16    care of the human body, for those bereaved, and the overall

 

 

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1    spiritual dignity of every person;
2        (4) that the provision of cadavers and other human
3    materials is a much-needed service for the advancement of
4    medical, mortuary, and other sciences;
5        (5) that there is a critical shortage of cadavers
6    necessary for the advancement of medical, mortuary, and
7    other sciences;
8        (6) that the State has, in the past, paid for the
9    burial and funeral of indigent individuals;
10        (7) that payment for such services is not now
11    consistent with the needs or demands of the current State
12    budget;
13        (8) that the State will no longer make payments for
14    funeral and burial services of indigent individuals;
15        (9) that the State has had a long-standing policy that
16    government officials who have custody of a body of any
17    deceased person shall transfer such custody to any State
18    medical college, school, or other institution of higher
19    science education or school of mortuary science for
20    advancement of medical, anatomical, biological, or
21    mortuary science; and
22        (10) that current law provides that any county coroner
23    may donate bodies not claimed by family members or friends.
 
24    Section 10. Indigent funeral and burial.
25    (a) If private funds are not available to pay funeral and

 

 

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1burial costs and a request is made for those costs to an
2official of State or local government, such official shall
3refer the appropriate family member, executor, or agent
4empowered to direct the disposition of the decedent's remains
5as provided in Section 65 of the Crematory Regulation Act or in
6subsection (a) of Section 40 of the Disposition of Remains Act
7to any institution of medical, mortuary, or other sciences
8registered in accordance with this Act for use in the
9advancement of medical science.
10    (b) The appropriate family member, executor, or agent
11empowered to direct the disposition of the decedent's remains
12shall be responsible for authorizing the use of such remains in
13accordance with the process of the specific institution of
14medical, mortuary, or other sciences registered in accordance
15with this Act.
16    (c) If funds are not otherwise available for burial or the
17cadaver has not been claimed by a family member or other
18responsible person, the coroner with custody may donate the
19cadaver for medical science purposes pursuant to Section 3-3034
20of the Counties Code.
 
21    Section 15. Funeral and burial of cadavers in the custody
22of the State.
23    (a) Unclaimed cadavers held by any State facility,
24hospital, institution, morgue, or other place for bodies of
25deceased persons may be turned over to any institution of

 

 

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1medical, mortuary, or other sciences registered in accordance
2with this Act for use in the advancement of medical science.
3    (b) The State facility director must make reasonable
4efforts to contact family members or other responsible persons
5so that they take responsibility for burial.
6    (c) No body may be surrendered if a family member or other
7responsible person requests the remains. However, in such
8event, such family member or other responsible person must
9remove the cadaver within 72 hours of notice from the facility.
10    (d) If arrangements have not been made or the cadaver has
11not been removed within 72 hours of notice from the facility,
12the State facility director may contribute the cadaver to any
13institution of medical, mortuary, or other sciences registered
14in accordance with this Act for use in the advancement of
15medical science.
16    (e) The State facility director shall as soon as is
17practicable after the end of the 72 hours of notice period:
18        (1) verify, if known, or make good faith efforts to
19    discover, if not known, identifying information regarding
20    the decedent, including ethnicity, religious affiliation
21    and former associations;
22        (2) provide to the Department of Public Health after
23    such verification or discovery all information in its
24    possession relating to the decedent;
25        (3) preserve all information submitted to the
26    Department of Public Health along with information on how

 

 

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1    the State facility obtained or attempted to obtain
2    information regarding the decedent, including persons
3    contacted, time of contact, name of contact, and documents
4    reviewed.
5    (f) The State facility director shall inquire and obtain
6from the Department of Public Health the appropriate
7institution to which it should send the cadaver.
8    (g) The State facility director shall provide to the
9institution the name, address, e-mail, and telephone of the
10family member or other responsible party if a contribution has
11been made.
12    (h) The State facility shall not pay any costs related to
13funeral or burial.
 
14    Section 20. Responsibility for expenses. The Department of
15Human Services, subject to appropriation, may pay to a funeral
16home or an institution of medical, mortuary, or other sciences
17an allowance for:
18        (1) funeral homes services;
19        (2) the burial ceremony; and
20        (3) transportation of the remains to the institution of
21    medical, mortuary, or other sciences.
 
22    Section 25. Institution of medical, mortuary, or other
23sciences.
24    (a) An institution of medical, mortuary or other sciences

 

 

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1receiving a cadaver pursuant to Section 15 of this Act shall:
2        (1) hold the cadaver at its facility for 30 days after
3    receipt from the State facility; and
4        (2) ensure during the 30-day period that the cadaver is
5    not used for any purpose other than for embalming.
6    (b) After use of the remains, the institution of medical,
7mortuary, or other sciences shall cremate them pursuant to
8Section 19 of the Crematory Regulation Act and deliver them to
9the appropriate family member, executor, or agent empowered to
10direct the disposition of the decedent's cremated human
11remains. Only for the purpose of ordering the cremation as
12provided in this subsection, the institution of medical,
13mortuary, or other sciences shall be considered an authorizing
14agent under the Crematory Regulation Act.
15    (c) If no such person is available, the institution of
16medical, mortuary, or other sciences shall inter the cremated
17human remains at a cemetery licensed under the Cemetery
18Oversight Act. Upon such interment, the institution shall
19notify the family member, executor, or agent empowered to
20direct the disposition of the decedent's remains by mail of the
21location of the remains. The institution shall maintain at all
22times a registry of such interred cremated human remains. Only
23for the purpose of interring the remains following cremation as
24provided in this subsection the institution of medical,
25mortuary, or other sciences will be considered an authorizing
26agent under the Crematory Regulation Act.

 

 

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1    (d) If at any time an appropriate family member, executor,
2or agent empowered to direct the disposition of the decedent's
3remains makes a written request concerning disposition, the
4institution of medical, mortuary, or other sciences shall
5return the remains within a reasonable time.
6    (e) If a family member, executor, or agent empowered to
7direct the disposition of the decedent's remains prior to the
8commencement of its use for medical or science purposes
9requests that the remains be returned for burial, the
10institution shall surrender the remains for interment at the
11institution's place of business.
 
12    Section 30. Registry of contributed cadavers and
13institutions of medical, mortuary, or other sciences.
14    (a) The Department of Public Health shall maintain a
15registry of:
16        (1) cadavers that have been contributed to
17    institutions of medical, mortuary, or other sciences
18    pursuant to Section 15; and
19        (2) institutions qualifying as institutions of
20    medical, mortuary, or other sciences eligible to receive
21    donations under this Act.
22    The Department shall update the registry with any new
23information within 24 hours of receiving the information.
24    (b) An institution must be a not-for-profit corporation
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1registered under the Charitable Trust Act in order to qualify
2for registration.
3    (c) The Department of Public Health shall adopt rules to
4determine the appropriate qualifications for such
5institutions.
6    (d) Each institution shall submit its request for cadavers
7in State custody. The Department of Public Health shall
8designate the next institution to receive a cadaver when
9requested by a State facility.
10    (e) If the number of cadavers is insufficient for the use
11of the relevant institutions, the Department of Public Health
12shall determine which institution shall receive them, taking
13into account the relative proportion of the numbers of students
14at each institution.
 
15    Section 90. The Crematory Regulation Act is amended by
16changing Section 5 as follows:
 
17    (410 ILCS 18/5)
18    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2021)
19    Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
20    "Address of record" means the designated address recorded
21by the Comptroller in the applicant's or licensee's application
22file or license file. It is the duty of the applicant or
23licensee to inform the Comptroller of any change of address
24within 14 days, and such changes must be made either through

 

 

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1the Comptroller's website or by contacting the Comptroller. The
2address of record shall be the permanent street address of the
3crematory.
4    "Alternative container" means a receptacle, other than a
5casket, in which human remains are transported to the crematory
6and placed in the cremation chamber for cremation. An
7alternative container shall be (i) composed of readily
8combustible or consumable materials suitable for cremation,
9(ii) able to be closed in order to provide a complete covering
10for the human remains, (iii) resistant to leakage or spillage,
11(iv) rigid enough for handling with ease, and (v) able to
12provide protection for the health, safety, and personal
13integrity of crematory personnel.
14    "Authorizing agent" means a person legally entitled to
15order the cremation and final disposition of specific human
16remains. "Authorizing agent" includes an institution of
17medical, mortuary, or other sciences as provided in Section 25
18of the Disposition of Remains of the Indigent Act.
19    "Body parts" means limbs or other portions of the anatomy
20that are removed from a person or human remains for medical
21purposes during treatment, surgery, biopsy, autopsy, or
22medical research; or human bodies or any portion of bodies that
23have been donated to science for medical research purposes.
24    "Burial transit permit" means a permit for disposition of a
25dead human body as required by Illinois law.
26    "Casket" means a rigid container that is designed for the

 

 

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1encasement of human remains, is usually constructed of wood,
2metal, or like material and ornamented and lined with fabric,
3and may or may not be combustible.
4    "Comptroller" means the Comptroller of the State of
5Illinois.
6    "Cremated remains" means all human remains recovered after
7the completion of the cremation, which may possibly include the
8residue of any foreign matter including casket material,
9bridgework, or eyeglasses, that was cremated with the human
10remains.
11    "Cremation" means the technical process, using heat and
12flame, or alkaline hydrolysis that reduces human remains to
13bone fragments. The reduction takes place through heat and
14evaporation or through hydrolysis. Cremation shall include the
15processing, and may include the pulverization, of the bone
16fragments.
17    "Cremation chamber" means the enclosed space within which
18the cremation takes place.
19    "Cremation interment container" means a rigid outer
20container that, subject to a cemetery's rules and regulations,
21is composed of concrete, steel, fiberglass, or some similar
22material in which an urn is placed prior to being interred in
23the ground, and which is designed to withstand prolonged
24exposure to the elements and to support the earth above the
25urn.
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1chamber is located.
2    "Crematory" means the building or portion of a building
3that houses the cremation room and the holding facility.
4    "Crematory authority" means the legal entity which is
5licensed by the Comptroller to operate a crematory and to
6perform cremations.
7    "Final disposition" means the burial, cremation, or other
8disposition of a dead human body or parts of a dead human body.
9    "Funeral director" means a person known by the title of
10"funeral director", "funeral director and embalmer", or other
11similar words or titles, licensed by the State to practice
12funeral directing or funeral directing and embalming.
13    "Funeral establishment" means a building or separate
14portion of a building having a specific street address and
15location and devoted to activities relating to the shelter,
16care, custody, and preparation of a deceased human body and may
17contain facilities for funeral or wake services.
18    "Holding facility" means an area that (i) is designated for
19the retention of human remains prior to cremation, (ii)
20complies with all applicable public health law, (iii) preserves
21the health and safety of the crematory authority personnel, and
22(iv) is secure from access by anyone other than authorized
23persons. A holding facility may be located in a cremation room.
24    "Human remains" means the body of a deceased person,
25including any form of body prosthesis that has been permanently
26attached or implanted in the body.

 

 

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1    "Licensee" means an entity licensed under this Act. An
2entity that holds itself as a licensee or that is accused of
3unlicensed practice is considered a licensee for purposes of
4enforcement, investigation, hearings, and the Illinois
5Administrative Procedure Act.
6    "Niche" means a compartment or cubicle for the
7memorialization and permanent placement of an urn containing
8cremated remains.
9    "Person" means any person, partnership, association,
10corporation, limited liability company, or other entity, and in
11the case of any such business organization, its officers,
12partners, members, or shareholders possessing 25% or more of
13ownership of the entity.
14    "Processing" means the reduction of identifiable bone
15fragments after the completion of the cremation process to
16unidentifiable bone fragments by manual or mechanical means.
17    "Pulverization" means the reduction of identifiable bone
18fragments after the completion of the cremation process to
19granulated particles by manual or mechanical means.
20    "Scattering area" means an area which may be designated by
21a cemetery and located on dedicated cemetery property where
22cremated remains, which have been removed from their container,
23can be mixed with, or placed on top of, the soil or ground
24cover.
25    "Temporary container" means a receptacle for cremated
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1material, that can be closed in a manner that prevents the
2leakage or spillage of the cremated remains or the entrance of
3foreign material, and is a single container of sufficient size
4to hold the cremated remains until an urn is acquired or the
5cremated remains are scattered.
6    "Urn" means a receptacle designed to encase the cremated
7remains.
8(Source: P.A. 96-863, eff. 3-1-12; 97-679, eff. 2-6-12.)
 
9    Section 95. The Disposition of Remains Act is amended by
10changing Section 5 as follows:
 
11    (755 ILCS 65/5)
12    Sec. 5. Right to control disposition; priority. Unless a
13decedent has left directions in writing for the disposition or
14designated an agent to direct the disposition of the decedent's
15remains as provided in Section 65 of the Crematory Regulation
16Act or in subsection (a) of Section 40 of this Act, the
17following persons, in the priority listed, have the right to
18control the disposition, including cremation, of the
19decedent's remains and are liable for the reasonable costs of
20the disposition:
21        (1) the person designated in a written instrument that
22    satisfies the provisions of Sections 10 and 15 of this Act;
23        (2) any person serving as executor or legal
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1    according to the decedent's written instructions contained
2    in the decedent's will;
3        (3) the individual who was the spouse of the decedent
4    at the time of the decedent's death;
5        (4) the sole surviving competent adult child of the
6    decedent, or if there is more than one surviving competent
7    adult child of the decedent, the majority of the surviving
8    competent adult children; however, less than one-half of
9    the surviving adult children shall be vested with the
10    rights and duties of this Section if they have used
11    reasonable efforts to notify all other surviving competent
12    adult children of their instructions and are not aware of
13    any opposition to those instructions on the part of more
14    than one-half of all surviving competent adult children;
15        (5) the surviving competent parents of the decedent; if
16    one of the surviving competent parents is absent, the
17    remaining competent parent shall be vested with the rights
18    and duties of this Act after reasonable efforts have been
19    unsuccessful in locating the absent surviving competent
20    parent;
21        (6) the surviving competent adult person or persons
22    respectively in the next degrees of kindred or, if there is
23    more than one surviving competent adult person of the same
24    degree of kindred, the majority of those persons; less than
25    the majority of surviving competent adult persons of the
26    same degree of kindred shall be vested with the rights and

 

 

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1    duties of this Act if those persons have used reasonable
2    efforts to notify all other surviving competent adult
3    persons of the same degree of kindred of their instructions
4    and are not aware of any opposition to those instructions
5    on the part of one-half or more of all surviving competent
6    adult persons of the same degree of kindred;
7        (6.5) any recognized religious, civic, community, or
8    fraternal organization willing to assume legal and
9    financial responsibility;
10        (7) in the case of indigents or any other individuals
11    whose final disposition is the responsibility of the State
12    or any of its instrumentalities, a public administrator,
13    medical examiner, coroner, State appointed guardian, or
14    any other public official charged with arranging the final
15    disposition of the decedent;
16        (8) in the case of individuals who have donated their
17    bodies to science, or whose death occurred in a nursing
18    home or other private institution, who have executed
19    cremation authorization forms under Section 65 of the
20    Crematory Regulation Act and the institution is charged
21    with making arrangements for the final disposition of the
22    decedent, a representative of the institution; or
23        (9) any other person or organization that is willing to
24    assume legal and financial responsibility.
25    As used in Section, "adult" means any individual who has
26reached his or her eighteenth birthday.

 

 

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1    Notwithstanding provisions to the contrary, in the case of
2decedents who die while serving as members of the United States
3Armed Forces, the Illinois National Guard, or the United States
4Reserve Forces, as defined in Section 1481 of Title 10 of the
5United States Code, and who have executed the required U.S.
6Department of Defense Record of Emergency Data Form (DD Form
793), or successor form, the person designated in such form to
8direct disposition of the decedent's remains shall have the
9right to control the disposition, including cremation, of the
10decedent's remains.
11(Source: P.A. 97-333, eff. 8-12-11; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)".