Bill Text: IL HB3005 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Burial Rights Act. Provides that contracts between cemetery authorities and cemetery workers' associations prohibiting in any manner dedications of monuments or headstones, family visitations, or visitations to veterans memorials on Sundays or legal holidays shall be deemed to be void as against public policy and wholly unenforceable. Makes conforming changes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-16 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB3005 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HB3005-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning employment.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Burial Rights Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | (820 ILCS 135/1) (from Ch. 21, par. 101)
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| 7 | Sec. 1.
(a) Every contract, agreement or understanding | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | between a cemetery
authority and a cemetery workers' | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | association which totally prohibits burials
of human remains | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | or prohibits in any manner dedications of monuments or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | headstones, family visitations, or visitations to veterans | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | memorials on Sundays or legal holidays shall be deemed to be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | void
as against public policy and wholly unenforceable.
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| 14 | (b) Nothing in this Section shall prohibit a cemetery | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | authority and a
cemetery workers' association from entering | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | into a contract, agreement or
understanding which limits | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | Sunday or holiday burials of human remains to
decedents who | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | were members of religious sects whose tenets or beliefs | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | require
burials within a specified period of time and whose | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | deaths occurred at such
times as to necessitate Sunday or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | holiday burials. Such contract, agreement
or understanding may | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | provide that a funeral director notify the cemetery
authority | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | within a reasonable time when a Sunday or holiday burial or | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | dedication of a monument or headstone is necessitated
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| 2 | reason of the decedent's religious tenets or beliefs.
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| 3 | (c) It shall be unlawful for any person to restrain, | ||||||
| 4 | prohibit or interfere
with the burial of a decedent whose time | ||||||
| 5 | of death and religious tenets or
beliefs necessitate burial on | ||||||
| 6 | a Sunday or legal holiday or prohibit in any manner | ||||||
| 7 | dedications of monuments or headstones, family visitations, or | ||||||
| 8 | visitations to veterans memorials on a Sunday or legal | ||||||
| 9 | holiday.
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| 10 | (d) A violation of this Section is a Class A misdemeanor.
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| 11 | (e) For the purposes of this Act, "cemetery authority" | ||||||
| 12 | shall have the meaning
ascribed to it in Section 2 of the | ||||||
| 13 | Cemetery Care Act or the Cemetery Oversight Act, whichever is | ||||||
| 14 | applicable; and "cemetery workers'
association" means an | ||||||
| 15 | organization of workers who are employed by cemetery
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| 16 | authorities to perform the task of burying human remains or | ||||||
| 17 | transporting
remains to cemeteries or other places of | ||||||
| 18 | interment, and who join together
for collective bargaining | ||||||
| 19 | purposes or to negotiate terms and conditions of employment.
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| 20 | (Source: P.A. 96-863, eff. 3-1-10.)
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