Cemeteries And Burials
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cemeteries. [HB-562]
[Community Development ]
Amend KRS 381.697 to require the governing authority of a city to mandate the proper care of a burial ground.
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AN ACT relating to interment at state veterans' cemeteries. [HB-191]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
Amend KRS 40.315 to expand interment eligibility in Kentucky state veterans' cemeteries to include eligible National Guard and Reserve service members and their families; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cremation of dead bodies. [SB-37]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 72.450 to allow a coroner who is in possession of an unclaimed dead body to have the body buried or cremated; direct that the decision between burial or cremation be made by the governmental entity bearing the expense.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cremation of dead bodies. [SB-163]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 72.450 to allow a coroner who is in possession of a dead body to have the body buried or cremated; direct that the decision between burial or cremation be made by the governmental entity bearing the expense.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cemeteries. [HB-411]
[Community Development ]
Amend KRS 381.697 to require the governing authority of a city to mandate the proper care of a burial ground.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Indigent Persons' Burial Program. [HB-187]
[Human Services ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Poverty ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 213 to establish the Kentucky Indigent Persons' Burial Program; create in the State Treasury a fund entitled the Kentucky indigent person burial trust fund to provide funds to defray the costs of funeral expenses for indigent persons in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; direct that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall oversee the program and fund and promulgate necessary administrative regulations.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interment in state veterans' cemeteries. [HB-86]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
Amend KRS 40.315 to expand interment eligibility in Kentucky state veterans' cemeteries to include eligible National Guard and Reserve service members and their families.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cemeteries. [HB-410]
[Community Development ]
Amend KRS 381.697 to require the governing authority of a city to mandate the proper care of a burial ground.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to veteran cemeteries. [HB-29]
[Veterans ]
Amend KRS 40.315 to remove the residency requirement for interment in veteran cemeteries.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to autopsies. [SB-269]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Amend KRS 72.460 to allow the family of a decedent to request an autopsy to be paid at the family's expense; define "family."
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coroners. [SB-184]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 72.450 to allow a coroner who is in possession of an unclaimed body to elect to cremate certain unclaimed bodies, in lieu of burial, and either offer the cremains to specified individuals, or inter the cremains provided no inquest has been held or is intended to be held and there is no reason to believe the body will be needed as evidence in any criminal matter or cremation is or may be inconsistent with the decedent's personal wishes or cultural or religious beliefs.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public health and declaring an emergency. [HB-3]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 311.732, relating to performance of an abortion upon a minor, to require the informed written consent of a parent or legal guardian to include a copy of that parent's or legal guardian's government-issued identification and parent's or legal guardian's documentation; require government-issued identification for the minor; require notification to other parent with joint or physical custody with exceptions; require the physician to keep a copy of the informed written consent for at least 7 years; require the physician to execute an affidavit;
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the dignified treatment of fetal remains. [SB-123]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.830 to require a hospital or abortion provider to inform the parents about their right to determine the final disposition of the fetal remains after a spontaneous miscarriage or abortion; make parents electing a disposition method other than the customary method for that facility responsible for the costs of disposition; require the abortion provider or hospital to provide for final disposition of the fetal remains if the parents decline or do not make a determination, require the Cabinet for Health and
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to veteran cemeteries. [HB-331]
[Veterans ]
Amend KRS 40.315 to remove the residency requirement for interment in veteran cemeteries.
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cremation. [HB-25]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 367.97501 to create definition for "alkaline hydrolysis," amend the definition of "cremation" to include "alkaline hydrolysis," and amend the definition of "cremation container" to include alkaline hydrolysis; amend KRS 367.97514 to correct statutory reference; make conforming amendment to KRS 316.010.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the interment of the families of veterans in Kentucky state veterans' cemeteries. [HB-578]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
Amend KRS 40.315 to prohibit the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs from charging a fee for the interment of veterans' spouses and next of kin.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abortion and declaring an emergency. [HB-460]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 311.732, relating to performance of an abortion upon a minor, to require the informed written consent of a parent or legal guardian to include a copy of that parent's or legal guardian's government-issued identification, and to include specific language; require the physician to keep a copy of the informed written consent for at least 7 years; require the physician to execute an affidavit; require additional criteria and standards for when a court determines whether to allow a minor to self-consent to an abortion; require the court hearing
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cemeteries. [HB-414]
[Community Development ]
Amend KRS 381.697 to require a city's governing authority to mandate the proper care of a burial ground.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the disposition of human remains. [HB-373]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 72.450 to allow coroners to cremate decedents in the event the coroner has possession of a decedent and cannot locate a spouse or next of kin.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cremation. [HB-346]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 367.97501 to create definition for "alkaline hydrolysis," amend the definition of "cremation" to include "alkaline hydrolysis," and amend the definition of "cremation container" to include alkaline hydrolysis; amend KRS 367.97514 to correct statutory reference; make conforming amendment to KRS 316.010.