Public Act 098-0432
 
HB2616 EnrolledLRB098 10148 MGM 40307 b

    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing
Code is amended by changing Section 1-15 as follows:
 
    (225 ILCS 41/1-15)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2023)
    Sec. 1-15. Funeral directing; definition. Conducting or
engaging in or representing or holding out oneself as
conducting or engaged in any one or any combination of the
following practices constitutes the practice of funeral
directing:
        (a) The practice of preparing, otherwise than by
    embalming, for the burial, cremation, or disposition and
    directing and supervising the burial or disposition of
    deceased human remains or performing any act or service in
    connection with the preparing of dead human bodies.
    Preparation, direction, and supervision shall not be
    construed to mean those functions normally performed by
    cemetery and crematory personnel.
        (b) The practice of operating a place for preparing for
    the disposition of deceased human bodies or for caring for
    deceased human bodies before their disposition. Nothing in
    this Code shall prohibit the ownership and management of
    such a place by an unlicensed owner if the place is
    operated in accordance with this Code and the unlicensed
    owner does not engage in any form of funeral directing. An
    unlicensed owner may interact with consumers while a
    licensed funeral director is present in accordance with
    this Section.
        (c) The removal of a deceased human body from its place
    of death, institution, or other location. A licensed
    funeral director and embalmer intern may remove a deceased
    human body from its place of death, institution, or other
    location without another licensee being present. The
    licensed funeral director may engage others who are not
    licensed funeral directors, licensed funeral director and
    embalmers, or licensed funeral director and embalmer
    interns to assist in the removal if the funeral director
    directs and instructs them in handling and precautionary
    procedures and accompanies them on all calls. The
    transportation of deceased human remains to a cemetery,
    crematory or other place of final disposition shall be
    under the immediate direct supervision of a licensee unless
    otherwise permitted by this Section. The transportation of
    deceased human remains that are embalmed or otherwise
    prepared and enclosed in an appropriate container to some
    other place that is not the place of final disposition,
    such as another funeral home or common carrier, or to a
    facility that shares common ownership with the
    transporting funeral home may be performed under the
    general supervision of a licensee, but the supervision need
    not be immediate or direct.
        (d) The administering and conducting of, or assuming
    responsibility for administering and conducting of, at
    need funeral arrangements.
        (e) The assuming custody of, transportation, providing
    shelter, protection and care and disposition of deceased
    human remains and the furnishing of necessary funeral
    services, facilities and equipment.
        (f) Using in connection with a name or practice the
    word "funeral director", "undertaker", "mortician",
    "funeral home", "funeral parlor", "funeral chapel", or any
    other title implying that the person is engaged in the
    practice of funeral directing.
    Within the existing scope of the practice of funeral
directing or funeral directing and embalming, only a licensed
funeral director, a licensed funeral director and embalmer, or
a licensed funeral director and embalmer intern under the
restrictions provided for in this Code, and not any other
person employed or contracted by the licensee, may engage in
the following activities at-need: (1) have direct contact with
consumers and explain funeral or burial merchandise or services
or (2) negotiate, develop, or finalize contracts with
consumers. This paragraph shall not be construed or enforced in
such a manner as to limit the functions of persons regulated
under the Illinois Funeral or Burial Funds Act, the Illinois
Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act, the Cemetery Oversight Act, the
Cemetery Care Act, the Cemetery Association Act, the Illinois
Insurance Code, or any other related professional regulatory
Act.
    The practice of funeral directing shall not include the
phoning in of obituary notices, ordering of flowers for the
funeral, or reporting of prices on the firm's general price
list as required by the Federal Trade Commission Funeral Rule
by nonlicensed persons, or like clerical tasks incidental to
the act of making funeral arrangements.
    The making of funeral arrangements, at need, shall be done
only by licensed funeral directors or licensed funeral
directors and embalmers. Licensed funeral director and
embalmer interns may, however, assist or participate in the
arrangements under the direct supervision of a licensed funeral
director or licensed funeral director and embalmer.
(Source: P.A. 96-1463, eff. 1-1-11; 97-1130, eff. 8-28-12.)