Bill Text: CA AB741 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Community colleges: veterans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB741 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB741-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 27, 2017

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 741

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Introduced by Assembly Member Cervantes

February 15, 2017

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An act to amend Section 9001 8112 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to cemeteries.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 741, as amended, Cervantes. Public cemetery districts.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of public and private cemeteries and for the disposition of human remains. Existing law requires cemeteries to keep specific records relating to the disposition of human remains, including orders for the removal of interred remains. Existing law authorizes those records to be kept in original form or by photocopy, microfilm, microfiche, laser disc, or any other method that can produce an accurate reproduction of the original record.

This bill would authorize the records to be kept on compact disc or electronic file and would eliminate the express authorization for the records to be kept on laser disc.

Existing law contains provisions relating to the establishment of public cemetery districts, including the formation of a district, the selection of a district governing board, and the powers and duties of the board.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 8112 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

8112.

 Records required to be kept under Division 7 (commencing with Section 7000) or this division may be kept in original form or by photocopy, microfilm, microfiche, laser disc, compact disc, electronic file, or any other method that can produce an accurate reproduction of the original record.

SECTION 1.Section 9001 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

9001.

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) There is a continuing need to provide for the respectful and cost-effective interment of human remains to meet the cultural, economic, religious, and social needs of California’s diverse communities.

(2) The Legislature authorized the creation of public cemetery districts in 1909 to assume responsibility for the ownership, improvement, expansion, and operation of cemeteries and the provision of interment services from fraternal, pioneer, religious, social, and other organizations that were unable to provide for those cemeteries.

(3) For nearly a century, public cemetery districts have provided communities with the means to publicly finance the ownership, improvement, expansion, and operation of public cemeteries and to provide interment services, particularly in rural and formerly rural communities.

(4) Interment customs and practices have changed since the creation of the public cemetery districts but communities continue to need the means to own, improve, expand, and operate public cemeteries that provide respectful and cost-effective interments.

(b) In enacting this part, it is the intent of the Legislature to create and continue a broad statutory authority for a class of special districts that can own, improve, expand, and operate public cemeteries that provide respectful and cost-effective interments.

(c) It is also the intent of the Legislature that local officials adapt the powers and procedures provided by this part to meet the diversity of local conditions and circumstances.