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Senate Bill S9112

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "licensed funeral arranger act"

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2025-S9112 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10095
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 34-A §§3470 - 3477, Pub Health L

2025-S9112 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "licensed funeral arranger act" under which a "licensed funeral arranger" license allows a funeral arranger to perform all acts permitted to a funeral director except embalming or any preservation of the body of a deceased person requiring embalming; creates a registration process under which registered transporters facilitate the removal and transportation of the bodies of deceased persons.

2025-S9112 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9112 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9112
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health  law,  in  relation  to  enacting  the
   "licensed funeral arranger act"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "licensed funeral arranger act".
   §  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 34-A to
 read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 34-A
                       LICENSED FUNERAL ARRANGER ACT
 SECTION 3470. DEFINITIONS.
         3471. FUNERAL ARRANGING; LICENSE TO PRACTICE REQUIRED; SCOPE  OF
                 PRACTICE.
         3472. FUNERAL  ARRANGING;  REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSE TO PRACTICE;
                 LICENSING EXAMINATIONS.
         3473. FUNERAL ARRANGING; RECIPROCITY.
         3474. FUNERAL ARRANGING; REGISTERED TRANSPORTER.
         3475. FUNERAL ARRANGING; REGISTRATION  REQUIREMENTS  FOR  REGIS-
                 TERED TRANSPORTER.
         3476. RULES AND REGULATIONS.
         3477. CONSTRUCTION.
   §  3470.  DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING
 TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1. "DISPOSITION" MEANS DISPOSITION AS DEFINED BY SECTION FOUR THOUSAND
 TWO HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   2. "EMBALMING" MEANS EMBALMING AS DEFINED BY  SECTION  THREE  THOUSAND
 FOUR HUNDRED OF THIS CHAPTER.
   3.  "FUNERAL  ARRANGER"  OR "LICENSED FUNERAL ARRANGER" MEANS A PERSON
 DULY LICENSED BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO ENGAGE IN  FUNERAL  ARRANGING,
 WHO MAY PERFORM ALL LAWFUL FUNERAL SERVICES EXCEPT EMBALMING.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14581-02-6
 S. 9112                             2
              

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