2022 Summary of Legislation - Effective January 1, 2023

AB 351 GARCIA (CHAPTER 399, STATUTES OF 2022)

1. Reduction of human remains and the disposition of reduced human remains.

This bill requires the Bureau, beginning January 1, 2027, to license and regulate reduction facilities, which the bill defines as a location where natural, organic reduction of a human body occurs, and reduction facility managers, and will enact requirements applicable to reduction facilities. Additionally, this bill will require a local registrar of births or deaths to issue permits for the disposition of reduced human remains.

SB 1443 ROTH (CHAPTER 625, STATUTES OF 2022)

1. Professions and vocations.

Among other things, this bill statutorily increased the Bureau's fees, which it had previously done in regulation. It also added a new fee that the Bureau will charge, for filing an endowment care fund annual report. The bill also raised the regulatory charge that licensees pay per internment, hydrolysis, burial, entombment, inurnment, or cremation, from $8.50 to $11.50.