Bill Title: Amends the Cemetery Protection Act. Provides that any person who acts without proper legal authority and who willfully and knowingly destroys or damages the remains of a deceased human being or who desecrates human remains is guilty of a Class 2 (instead of a Class 3) felony. Provides that any person who acts without proper legal authority and who willfully and knowingly removes any portion of the remains of a deceased human being from a burial ground where skeletal remains are buried or from a grave, crypt, vault, mausoleum, or other repository of human remains is guilty of a Class 2 (instead of Class 4) felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB4946 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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