Bill Text: AZ SB1295 | 2017 | Fifty-third Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Funeral directors; embalmers; board membership

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-13 - Senate COMPS Committee action: Failed To Pass, voting: (2-5-1-0) [SB1295 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2017-SB1295-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: funeral directors; embalmers; board membership

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-third Legislature

First Regular Session

2017

 

 

SB 1295

 

Introduced by

Senators Farnsworth D: Allen S, Burges, Fann, Farley, Montenegro, Worsley; Representatives Bowers, Boyer, Coleman

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 32‑1302, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the state board of funeral directors and embalmers.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 32-1302, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-1302.  State board of funeral directors and embalmers; appointment; term; qualifications; removal; oath; compensation

A.  The state board of funeral directors and embalmers is established.  The board consists of seven members appointed by the governor pursuant to section 38‑211.  Members serve at the pleasure of the governor.  Board members serve staggered terms of four years beginning and ending on January 1 unless removed by the governor.  The governor shall appoint a member for the unexpired portion of a term to fill a vacancy occurring during a term of office.

B.  Each member of the board shall be a resident of this state.  Four Three members shall be practicing funeral directors or embalmers licensed under this chapter.  Three Four members shall be public members, one of whom is an owner or manager of a business that has no pecuniary or proprietary interest in a funeral establishment or crematory or in the sale of funeral goods and services.  The public members shall not be licensed under this chapter currently or have been licensed under this chapter in the five years preceding appointment.

C.  Before entering office, each appointee shall take and subscribe to an oath before an officer competent to administer oaths that the appointee is qualified to hold office and will faithfully perform the duties imposed on board members by law.

D.  Members of the board are eligible to receive compensation pursuant to section 38‑611 for each day of actual service in the business of the board.END_STATUTE

Sec. 2.  State board of funeral directors and embalmers; terms; appointments

A.  Notwithstanding section 32‑1302, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, all persons serving as members of the state board of funeral directors and embalmers on the effective date of this act may continue to serve until the expiration of their normal terms.

B.  On the expiration of the term of a state board of funeral directors and embalmers member who is a practicing funeral director or embalmer appointed pursuant to section 32‑1302, subsection B, Arizona Revised Statutes, the governor shall appoint a fourth public member to the state board of funeral directors and embalmers pursuant to section 32‑1302, subsection B, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, for a four‑year term as prescribed by section 32‑1302, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act.  The governor shall make all subsequent appointments as prescribed by statute.