NY State Senate Bill 2009-S7542

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Jun 22, 2010	referred to codes delivered to assembly passed senate
Jun 14, 2010	amended on third reading 7542b
May 25, 2010	advanced to third reading
May 24, 2010	2nd report cal.
May 18, 2010	1st report cal.587
May 10, 2010	print number 7542a
May 10, 2010	amend and recommit to codes
Apr 20, 2010	referred to codes

Votes

- Jun 22, 2010 - Floor Vote
  S7542
  
  61
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 22, 2010
      
      aye (61)
      
      Adams
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Alesi
      
      Aubertine
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Duane
      
      Espada
      
      Farley
      
      Flanagan
      
      Foley
      
      Fuschillo
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hannon
      
      Hassell-Thompson
      
      Huntley
      
      Johnson
      
      Johnson
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      Kruger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Leibell
      
      Libous
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Maziarz
      
      McDonald
      
      Montgomery
      
      Nozzolio
      
      Onorato
      
      Oppenheimer
      
      Padavan
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Perkins
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Robach
      
      Saland
      
      Sampson
      
      Savino
      
      Schneiderman
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skelos
      
      Smith
      
      Squadron
      
      Stachowski
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Thompson
      
      Valesky
      
      Volker
      
      Winner
      
      Young
      
      excused (1)
      
      Morahan
  May 18, 2010 - Codes Committee Vote
  S7542
  
  15
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Codes Committee Vote: May 18, 2010
      
      aye (15)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Duane
      
      Flanagan
      
      Huntley
      
      Klein
      
      Lanza
      
      Parker
      
      Perkins
      
      Saland
      
      Sampson
      
      Schneiderman
      
      Squadron
      
      Volker
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Golden

Bill Amendments

Original

B (Active)

2009-S7542 - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Codes
Law Section:: Penal Law
Laws Affected:: Add §220.78, Pen L; amd §§3400 & 3455, Pub Health L

2009-S7542 - Summary

Makes possession and sale of embalming fluid a misdemeanor.

2009-S7542 - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S7542

 TITLE OF BILL :
An act to amend the penal law and public health law, in relation to
criminal possession and unlawful sale of embalming fluid


 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :
To prevent the dangerous and anomalous use of embalming fluid.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :
Section 1 amends the penal law by adding a new offense, criminal
possession of embalming fluid. A person would be guilty of that
offense when he or she possesses embalming fluid with the intent to
ingest or inhale such embalming fluid or has knowledge that someone
else will ingest or inhale such embalming fluid. Subsection 2 sets
forth a definition of embalming fluid for purposes of this section and
defines the crime as a class A misdemeanor.

Section 2 amends the public health law by adding a definition of
embalming fluid.

Section 3 amends the public health law by adding a new violation to
the section of law dealing with the enforcement and discipline for
funeral directors, undertakers and embalmers. This new violation would
penalize any funeral director, undertaker or embalmer who sells or

offers for sale embalming fluid to another person with actual
knowledge that such person is not a licensed funeral director,
undertaker or embalmer, and that such person would be using the
embalming fluid for purposes outside the scope of funeral directing or
embalming activities.

 JUSTIFICATION :
Last year in Syracuse, a couple was severely injured when they were
struck head-on by an impaired driver. Before getting in the car and
running down the couple, the driver had smoked a cigarette dipped in
embalming fluid laced with phencyclidine (PCP), a strong hallucinogen.
One of the victims of the crash spent weeks in a coma and almost lost
a limb. The other victim suffered nearly serious injuries. This tragic
story exemplifies a rapidly growing problem:  the recreational use of
embalming fluid, specifically when mixed with illegal narcotics.

Embalming fluid, a chemical compound containing formaldehyde,
methanol, ethanol and other solvents, is a highly-flammable poison,
its purpose is to preserve the dead by making the body an unsuitable
host for bacteria and other organisms. Though embalming fluid is a
legal substance, when mixed with drugs, it can produce a
hallucinogenic and often violent reaction. Since it is a legal
substance, the fluid is available online. Marijuana laced with the
fluid is often sold on the streets, and fluid sold by itself on the
streets is almost always laced with other hallucinogenic drugs.

Health-care officials have noted an increase in cases of drugs being
mixed with embalming fluid. In fact, Syracuse area hospitals are
preparing to handle twice the number of embalming fluid cases compared
to last year.

This bill aims to prevent such cases and other tragedies by creating a
new penalty for illegal possession of embalming fluid, as well as
adding a new penalty within the public health law regulating the
funeral directing and embalming professions.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :
This is a new bill.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :
None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect on the 180th day after it shall become law.

2009-S7542 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7542

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 20, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law and public  health  law,  in  relation  to
  criminal possession and unlawful sale of embalming fluid

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 220.78  to
read as follows:
S 220.78 CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF EMBALMING FLUID.
  1.  A  PERSON IS GUILTY OF CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF EMBALMING FLUID WHEN
HE OR SHE POSSESSES EMBALMING FLUID WITH EITHER THE INTENT TO  USE  SUCH
EMBALMING FLUID OR KNOWS SOME OTHER PERSON INTENDS TO USE SUCH EMBALMING
FLUID FOR PURPOSES OF HUMAN INGESTION OR INHALATION.
  2.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "EMBALMING FLUID" MEANS ANY CHEMICAL
OR SUBSTANCE MANUFACTURED PRIMARILY FOR USE BY LICENSED  FUNERAL  DIREC-
TORS,  UNDERTAKERS  OR  EMBALMERS,  OR REGISTERED RESIDENTS, TO PREPARE,
DISINFECT OR PRESERVE, EITHER HYPODERMICALLY, ARTERIALLY OR BY ANY OTHER
RECOGNIZED MEANS THE BODY OF A DECEASED PERSON FOR BURIAL, CREMATION  OR
OTHER FINAL DISPOSITION.
  CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF EMBALMING FLUID IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
  S  2. Section 3400 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
subdivision (l) to read as follows:
  (L) "EMBALMING FLUID" MEANS ANY  CHEMICAL  OR  SUBSTANCE  MANUFACTURED
PRIMARILY  FOR  USE BY LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTORS, UNDERTAKERS OR EMBAL-
MERS, OR REGISTERED RESIDENTS, TO PREPARE, DISINFECT OR PRESERVE, EITHER
HYPODERMICALLY, ARTERIALLY OR BY ANY OTHER RECOGNIZED MEANS THE BODY  OF
A DECEASED PERSON FOR BURIAL, CREMATION OR OTHER FINAL DISPOSITION.
  S  3. Section 3455 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
  1-A. BEING A FUNERAL DIRECTOR, UNDERTAKER OR EMBALMER,  OR  REGISTERED
RESIDENT, KNOWINGLY GIVES, SELLS, PERMITS TO BE SOLD, OFFERS FOR SALE OR
DISPLAYS  FOR  SALE, OTHER THAN FOR PURPOSES WITHIN THE GENERAL SCOPE OF
THEIR ACTIVITIES AS A LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTOR, UNDERTAKER OR EMBALMER,
OR REGISTERED RESIDENT, EMBALMING FLUID TO ANOTHER  PERSON  WITH  ACTUAL

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                           LBD14710-03-0

S. 7542                             2

KNOWLEDGE  THAT  SUCH  OTHER  PERSON IS NOT A LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTOR,
UNDERTAKER OR EMBALMER, OR REGISTERED RESIDENT, OR ENTITY AUTHORIZED  TO
PERFORM EMBALMING ACTIVITIES UNDER SECTION THIRTY-FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY OF
THIS  ARTICLE OR ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED IN ARTICLE FORTY-TWO OF THIS CHAP-
TER; OR
  S 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.

2009-S7542A - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Codes
Law Section:: Penal Law
Laws Affected:: Add §220.78, Pen L; amd §§3400 & 3455, Pub Health L

2009-S7542A - Summary

Makes possession and sale of embalming fluid a misdemeanor.

2009-S7542A - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S7542A

 TITLE OF BILL :
An act to amend the penal law and public health law, in relation to
criminal possession and unlawful sale of embalming fluid


 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :
To prevent the dangerous and anomalous use of embalming fluid.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :
Section 1 amends the penal law by adding a new offense, criminal
possession of embalming fluid. A person would be guilty of that
offense when he or she possesses embalming fluid with the intent to
ingest or inhale such embalming fluid or has knowledge that someone
else will ingest or inhale such embalming fluid. subsection 2 sets
forth a definition of embalming fluid for purposes of this section and
defines the crime as a class A misdemeanor.

Section 2 amends the public health law by adding a definition of
embalming fluid.

Section 3 amends the public health law by adding a new violation to
the section of law dealing with the enforcement and discipline for
funeral directors, undertakers and embalmers. This new violation would
penalize any funeral director, undertaker or embalmer who sells or

offers for sale embalming fluid to another person with actual
knowledge that such person is not a licensed funeral director,
undertaker or embalmer, and that such person would be using the
embalming fluid for purposes outside the scope of funeral directing or
embalming activities.

 JUSTIFICATION :
Last year in Syracuse, a couple was severely injured when they were
struck head-on by an impaired driver. Before getting in the car and
running down the couple, the driver had smoked a cigarette dipped in
embalming fluid laced with phencyclidine (PCP), a strong hallucinogen.
One of the victims of the crash spent weeks in a coma and almost lost
a limb. The other victim suffered nearly serious injuries. This tragic
story exemplifies a rapidly growing problem: the recreational use of
embalming fluid, specifically when mixed with illegal narcotics.

Embalming fluid, a chemical compound containing formaldehyde,
methanol, ethanol and other solvents, is a highly-flammable poison,
its purpose is to preserve the dead by making the body an unsuitable
host for bacteria and other organisms. Though embalming fluid is a
legal substance when mixed with drugs, it can produce a hallucinogenic
and often violent reaction. Since it is a legal substance, the fluid
is available online. Marajuana laced with the fluid is often sold on
the streets, and fluid sold by itself on the streets is almost always
laced with other hallucinogenic drugs.

Health-care officials have noted an increase in cases of drugs being
mixed with embalming fluid. In fact, Syracuse area hospitals are
preparing to handle twice the number of embalming fluid cases compared
to last year.

This bill aims to prevent such cases and other tragedies by creating a
new penalty for illegal possession of embalming fluid, as well as
adding a new penalty within the public health law regulating the
funeral directing and embalming professions.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :
This is a new bill.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :
None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect on the 180th day after it shall become law.

2009-S7542A - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 7542--A

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 20, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal law and public health law, in relation to
  criminal possession and unlawful sale of embalming fluid

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 220.78 to
read as follows:
S 220.78 CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF EMBALMING FLUID.
  1. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF EMBALMING  FLUID  WHEN
HE  OR  SHE POSSESSES EMBALMING FLUID WITH EITHER THE INTENT TO USE SUCH
EMBALMING FLUID OR KNOWLEDGE THAT SOME OTHER PERSON INTENDS TO USE  SUCH
EMBALMING FLUID FOR PURPOSES OF HUMAN INGESTION OR INHALATION.
  2.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "EMBALMING FLUID" MEANS ANY CHEMICAL
OR SUBSTANCE MANUFACTURED PRIMARILY FOR USE BY LICENSED  FUNERAL  DIREC-
TORS,  UNDERTAKERS  OR  EMBALMERS,  OR REGISTERED RESIDENTS, TO PREPARE,
DISINFECT OR PRESERVE, EITHER HYPODERMICALLY, ARTERIALLY OR BY ANY OTHER
RECOGNIZED MEANS THE BODY OF A DECEASED PERSON FOR BURIAL, CREMATION  OR
OTHER FINAL DISPOSITION.
  CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF EMBALMING FLUID IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
  S  2. Section 3400 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
subdivision (l) to read as follows:
  (L) "EMBALMING FLUID" MEANS ANY  CHEMICAL  OR  SUBSTANCE  MANUFACTURED
PRIMARILY  FOR  USE BY LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTORS, UNDERTAKERS OR EMBAL-
MERS, OR REGISTERED RESIDENTS, TO PREPARE, DISINFECT OR PRESERVE, EITHER
HYPODERMICALLY, ARTERIALLY OR BY ANY OTHER RECOGNIZED MEANS THE BODY  OF
A DECEASED PERSON FOR BURIAL, CREMATION OR OTHER FINAL DISPOSITION.
  S  3. Section 3455 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
  1-A. BEING A FUNERAL DIRECTOR, UNDERTAKER OR EMBALMER,  OR  REGISTERED
RESIDENT, KNOWINGLY GIVES, SELLS, PERMITS TO BE SOLD, OFFERS FOR SALE OR
DISPLAYS  FOR  SALE, OTHER THAN FOR PURPOSES WITHIN THE GENERAL SCOPE OF

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                           LBD14710-04-0

S. 7542--A                          2

THEIR ACTIVITIES AS A LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTOR, UNDERTAKER OR EMBALMER,
OR REGISTERED RESIDENT, EMBALMING FLUID TO ANOTHER  PERSON  WITH  ACTUAL
KNOWLEDGE  THAT  SUCH  OTHER  PERSON IS NOT A LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTOR,
UNDERTAKER  OR EMBALMER, OR REGISTERED RESIDENT, OR ENTITY AUTHORIZED TO
PERFORM EMBALMING ACTIVITIES UNDER SECTION THIRTY-FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY OF
THIS ARTICLE OR ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED IN ARTICLE FORTY-TWO OF THIS  CHAP-
TER; OR
  S 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Codes
Law Section:: Penal Law
Laws Affected:: Add §220.78, Pen L; amd §§3400 & 3455, Pub Health L

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes possession and sale of embalming fluid a misdemeanor.

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S7542B

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the penal law and public health law,
in relation to criminal possession and unlawful sale of
embalming fluid

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To prevent the recreational and dangerous ingestion or inhalation of
embalming fluid.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends the penal law by adding a new offense, criminal
possession of embalming fluid. A person would be guilty of that
offense when he or she possesses embalming fluid with the intent to
ingest or inhale such embalming fluid or sells to another person
knowing that such person will ingest or inhale such embalming fluid.
Subsection 2 sets forth a definition of embalming fluid for purposes
of this section and defines the crime as a class A misdemeanor.

Section 2 amends the public health law by adding a definition of
embalming fluid.

Section 3 amends the public health law by adding a new violation to
the section of law dealing with the enforcement and discipline for

funeral directors, undertakers and embalmers. This new violation
would penalize any funeral director, undertaker or embalmer who sells
or offers for sale embalming fluid to another person with actual
knowledge that such person is not a licensed funeral director,
undertaker or embalmer, or registered student and that such person
would be using the embalming fluid for purposes outside the scope of
funeral directing or embalming activities.

JUSTIFICATION:
Last year in Syracuse, a couple was severely injured when they were
struck head-on by an impaired driver. Before getting in the car and
running down the couple, the driver had smoked a cigarette dipped in
embalming fluid laced with phencyclidine (PCP), a strong hallucinogen.
One of the victims of the crash spent weeks in a coma and almost lost
a limb. The other victim suffered nearly serious injuries. This
tragic story exemplifies a rapidly growing problem: the recreational
use of embalming fluid, specifically when mixed with illegal narcotics.

Embalming fluid, a chemical compound containing formaldehyde,
methanol, ethanol and other solvents, is a highly-flammable poison,
its purpose is to preserve the dead by making the body an unsuitable
host for bacteria and other organisms. Though embalming fluid is a
legal substance when
mixed with drugs, it can produce a hallucinogenic and often violent
reaction. Since it is a legal substance, the fluid is available online.

Marijuana laced with the fluid is often sold on the streets, and fluid
sold by itself on the streets is almost always laced with other
hallucinogenic drugs.

Health-care officials have noted an increase in cases of drugs being
mixed with embalming fluid. In fact, Syracuse area hospitals are
preparing to handle twice the number of embalming fluid cases
compared to last year.

This bill aims to prevent such cases and other tragedies by creating a
new penalty for illegal possession of embalming fluid, as well as
adding a new penalty within the public health law regulating the
funeral directing and embalming professions.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the 180th day after it shall become law.

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 7542--B
    Cal. No. 587

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 20, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to  said  committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
  to first and second report, ordered to a third  reading,  amended  and
  ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal law and public health law, in relation to
  criminal possession and unlawful sale of embalming fluid

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 220.78 to
read as follows:
S 220.78 CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF EMBALMING FLUID.
  1. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF EMBALMING  FLUID  WHEN
HE  OR  SHE  KNOWINGLY POSSESSES EMBALMING FLUID WITH THE INTENT: (A) TO
USE SUCH EMBALMING FLUID FOR PURPOSES OF HUMAN INGESTION OR  INHALATION;
OR  (B)  TO  SELL  SUCH  EMBALMING FLUID TO ANOTHER PERSON UNDER CIRCUM-
STANCES EVINCING KNOWLEDGE THAT SUCH OTHER  PERSON  OR  A  THIRD  PERSON
INTENDS  TO  USE SUCH EMBALMING FLUID FOR PURPOSES OF HUMAN INGESTION OR
INHALATION.
  2. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "EMBALMING FLUID" MEANS ANY CHEMICALS
OR SUBSTANCES MANUFACTURED PRIMARILY FOR USE BY LICENSED FUNERAL  DIREC-
TORS,  UNDERTAKERS  OR  EMBALMERS,  OR REGISTERED RESIDENTS, TO PREPARE,
DISINFECT OR PRESERVE, EITHER HYPODERMICALLY, ARTERIALLY OR BY ANY OTHER
RECOGNIZED MEANS THE BODY OF A DECEASED PERSON FOR BURIAL, CREMATION  OR
OTHER FINAL DISPOSITION.
  CRIMINAL POSSESSION OF EMBALMING FLUID IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
  S  2. Section 3400 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
subdivision (l) to read as follows:
  (L) "EMBALMING FLUID" MEANS ANY CHEMICALS OR  SUBSTANCES  MANUFACTURED
PRIMARILY  FOR  USE BY LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTORS, UNDERTAKERS OR EMBAL-
MERS, OR REGISTERED RESIDENTS, TO PREPARE, DISINFECT OR PRESERVE, EITHER
HYPODERMICALLY, ARTERIALLY OR BY ANY OTHER RECOGNIZED MEANS THE BODY  OF
A DECEASED PERSON FOR BURIAL, CREMATION OR OTHER FINAL DISPOSITION.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14710-06-0

S. 7542--B                          2

  S  3.  Paragraph  (f)  of  subdivision 1 of section 3455 of the public
health law is relettered paragraph (g) and a new paragraph (f) is  added
to read as follows:
  (F)  BEING  A  FUNERAL DIRECTOR, UNDERTAKER OR EMBALMER, OR REGISTERED
RESIDENT, KNOWINGLY GIVE, SELL, PERMIT TO BE SOLD,  OFFER  FOR  SALE  OR
DISPLAY  FOR  SALE,  OTHER THAN FOR PURPOSES WITHIN THE GENERAL SCOPE OF
THEIR ACTIVITIES AS A LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTOR, UNDERTAKER OR EMBALMER,
OR REGISTERED RESIDENT, EMBALMING FLUID TO ANOTHER  PERSON  WITH  ACTUAL
KNOWLEDGE  THAT  SUCH  OTHER  PERSON IS NOT A LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTOR,
UNDERTAKER OR EMBALMER, OR REGISTERED RESIDENT, OR ENTITY AUTHORIZED  TO
PERFORM EMBALMING ACTIVITIES UNDER SECTION THIRTY-FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY OF
THIS  ARTICLE OR ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED IN ARTICLE FORTY-TWO OF THIS CHAP-
TER; OR
  S 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.

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Senate Bill S7542

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Jun 22, 2010 - Floor Vote

Floor Vote: Jun 22, 2010

May 18, 2010 - Codes Committee Vote

Codes Committee Vote: May 18, 2010

Bill Amendments

2009-S7542 - Details

2009-S7542 - Summary

2009-S7542 - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7542 - Bill Text download pdf

2009-S7542A - Details

2009-S7542A - Summary

2009-S7542A - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7542A - Bill Text download pdf

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Details

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Summary

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

Comments

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Sponsored By

David J. Valesky

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Bill Amendments

2009-S7542 - Details

2009-S7542 - Summary

2009-S7542 - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7542 - Bill Text download pdf

2009-S7542A - Details

2009-S7542A - Summary

2009-S7542A - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7542A - Bill Text download pdf

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Details

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Summary

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7542B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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