Bill Title: To authorize the Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors to issue courtesy licenses to allow funeral directors in bordering states to conduct limited funeral-related activities in Ohio; to permit embalmers and funeral directors to place their licenses on inactive status; to clarify that, upon the sale of the funeral home, the home may remain operating based upon a submission of a new license application to the Board; to permit out-of-state funeral directors without a license to work with licensed funeral directors during a declared disaster or emergency; to eliminate the requirement that funeral homes be the guarantor of the identity of decedents and instead require funeral homes to complete only visual identification of remains; to exempt certain records concerning individual and joint self insurance of political subdivisions from the public records law; and to authorize joint county department of job and family services employees and detention facility district employees to participate in a deferred compensation program.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 27-8)

Status: (Passed) 2013-03-22 - Effective Date [HB481 Detail]

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Bill Drafts

Revision	Date	Format	Source	View
Enrolled	2012-12-13	HTML/Text	Link	View
Engrossed	2012-12-11	HTML/Text	Link	View
Engrossed	2012-05-22	HTML/Text	Link	View
Comm Sub	2012-05-09	HTML/Text	Link	View
Introduced	2012-03-13	HTML/Text	Link	View

Amendments

Amendment	Date	Disposition	Format	Source	View
No bill amendments currently on file for Ohio HB481

Supplemental Documents

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No supplemental documents for Ohio HB481 currently on file.