Virginia House Bill 1125 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-11-29 - Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
Pending: House Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Disposition of dead bodies; how expenses paid. Requires court authorization for a county or city to pay reasonable expenses for the disposition of a dead body in all cases in which a dead body is unclaimed or is claimed by a claimant who is unable to pay such expenses. The bill also provides that in such cases, if the decedent has an estate out of which all or part of disposition expenses can be paid, the county or city may take the estate for that purpose. Currently, court authorization for payment is required, and the taking of the estate is allowed, when in cases in which the body of decedent is in the custody of the sheriff of the county or city where the death occurred.

Dead bodies; requires court authorization for locality to pay reasonable expenses for disposition.

Sen. Kenneth Alexander [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-11-29	House	Left in Health, Welfare and Institutions
2012-01-31	House	Continued to 2013 in Health, Welfare and Institutions by voice vote
2012-01-26	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2013 by voice vote
2012-01-18	House	Assigned HWI sub: #3
2012-01-11	House	Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
2012-01-11	House	Presented and ordered printed 12100374D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
32	1	288	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+HB1125
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+HB1125+hil