Bill Text: IL HB1367 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. In provisions concerning exemptions from continuing education requirements, removes a provision that prevents licensees who have not engaged in the practice of funeral directing and embalming for at least 40 years by January 1, 2016 from receiving an exemption after that date. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-08-04 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0419 [HB1367 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1367-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 103-0419
HB1367 Enrolled LRB103 25732 CPF 52081 b
AN ACT concerning health.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing
Code is amended by changing Section 10-35 as follows:
(225 ILCS 41/10-35)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2028)
Sec. 10-35. Renewal; reinstatement; restoration. The
expiration date and renewal period for each license issued
under this Article shall be set by rule. The holder of a
license as a licensed funeral director and embalmer or funeral
director and embalmer intern may renew the license during the
month preceding the expiration date of the license by paying
the required fee. A licensed funeral director and embalmer or
licensed funeral director and embalmer trainee whose license
has expired may have the license reinstated within 5 years
from the date of expiration upon payment of the required
reinstatement fee and fulfilling the requirements of the
Department's rules. The reinstatement of the license is
effective as of the date of the reissuance of the license.
Any licensed funeral director and embalmer whose license
has been expired for more than 5 years may have the license
restored only by fulfilling the requirements set forth in the

Department's rules and by paying the required restoration fee.
However, any licensed funeral director and embalmer or
licensed funeral director and embalmer intern whose license
has expired while he or she has been engaged (1) in federal
service on active duty with the United States Army, Navy,
Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard, or the State Militia
called into the service or training of the United States of
America or (2) in training or education under the supervision
of the United States preliminary to induction into the
military service, may have his or her license restored without
paying any lapsed renewal fees or restoration fee or without
passing any examination if, within 2 years after termination
of the service, training or education other than by
dishonorable discharge, he or she furnishes the Department
with an affidavit to the effect that he or she has been so
engaged and that his or her service, training or education has
been so terminated.
No license of a funeral director and embalmer intern shall
be renewed more than twice.
In addition to any other requirement for renewal of a
license or reinstatement or restoration of an expired license,
as a condition for the renewal, reinstatement, or restoration
of a license as a licensed funeral director and embalmer, each
licensee shall provide evidence to the Department of
completion of at least 24 hours of continuing education during
the 24 months preceding the expiration date of the license, or

in the case of reinstatement or restoration, within the 24
months preceding the application for reinstatement or
restoration. The continuing education sponsors shall be
approved by the Board. In addition, any qualified continuing
education course for funeral directors and embalmers offered
by a college, university, the Illinois Funeral Directors
Association, Funeral Directors Services Association of Greater
Chicago, Cook County Association of Funeral Home Owners, Inc.,
Illinois Selected Morticians Associations, Inc., Illinois
Cemetery and Funeral Home Association, National Funeral
Directors Association, Selected Independent Funeral Homes,
National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, Inc.,
International Order of the Golden Rule, or an Illinois school
of mortuary science shall be accepted toward satisfaction of
the continuing education requirements.
The Department shall establish by rule a means for
verification of completion of the continuing education
required by this Section. This verification may be
accomplished through audits of records maintained by
licensees, by requiring the filing of continued education
certificates with the Department or a qualified organization
selected by the Department to maintain the records, or by
other means established by the Department.
Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, a person
who is licensed as a funeral director and embalmer under this
Code and who has engaged in the practice of funeral directing

and embalming for at least 40 years shall be exempt from the
continuing education requirements of this Section. Licensees
who have not engaged in the practice of funeral directing and
embalming for at least 40 years by January 1, 2016 shall not
receive this exemption after that date. In addition, the
Department shall establish by rule an exemption or exception,
for a limited period of time, for funeral directors and
embalmers who, by reason of advanced age, health or other
extreme condition, should reasonably be excused from the
continuing education requirement upon the approval of the
Secretary. Those persons, identified above, who cannot attend
on-site classes, shall have the opportunity to comply by
completing home study courses designed for them by sponsors.
(Source: P.A. 96-1463, eff. 1-1-11; 97-1130, eff. 8-28-12.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.